Tiranamba Adesimbo Mbobo grew. She danced with the villagers at births and weddings and wept with them at wakes, but she never spoke a word. Her silence did not trouble the villagers. She would speak, they said, when she had something important to say. The magical and mysterious story of a little girl, found under a tree as a baby, who saves her village - and the villagers' lifegiving tree - through her bravery.