Waking Up in Africa

"Today was the most wonderful day of my life," he says. "Today, my life stopped being hard." That's it. I hang up and cry.

When Gila Svirsky moves to Uganda to follow her wife's new job, she is drawn into the lives of a group of mostly parentless teens-hungry to stay in school, desperate to carve out a future. As her plan to provide them with support takes shape, they slowly become her extended family, opening their hearts and lives to her. But she carries a dangerous secret: she is married...