Chapter 19 Summary

After Laurence has been gone a week, Frank puts his belongings away. He comes across a letter from Zanele and decides to write and inform her of Laurence's disappearance. He wonders about Laurence's mother, but Dr. Ngema tells him that she's already informed her.

One or two months after his disappearance, Laurence's mother shows up. Frank and she speak in his room. Laurence's mother tells him that Laurence wrote of him often, that he was a good friend and had taken care of him. Frank tells her that he knows she is his mother, not his sister.

The soldiers and Colonel Moller leave the area. Claudia goes back to Cuba. Dr. Ngema begins her new job in the city and Frank assumed her job as head of the hospital.

One day a young man comes to the hospital and tells Frank that he...