Tofi, a Zulu, meets a dying Nii on the shores of the Zulu kingdom. Nii, from the Gold Coast of Africa had been thrown overboard a ship when he tried to stow away to America. A rainbow fish saves him from sharks. Nii is accepted by the Zulu people and taught how to look after cattle. When he discovers that despite the wide ocean, the Zulus could not fish, he starts a fishing revolution. One day the rains fail to fall, the grass withers, the cows die. But like true love, sea never dries. An adaptation of the extraordinary African story Tofi's Fire Dance, by the same author, for 6 to 9 year olds.