In a small village somewhere in Africa, a mother lives with her three sons. She has beautiful, long raven black hair that can cool her boys in the desert heat, catch fish and also serve as a trampoline for their entertainment. By and by, her boys leave home and find jobs that bring them to the other ends of the world: the eldest works on a fishing boat, the other two are picked up by a helicopter and a train. Not long afterwards, she receives her sons' cries for help and has to sacrifice her hair in order to save their lives.