Meisie is a heart-warming and heart-breaking tale of a goat-herding young girl who wants to go to school. When a young schoolteacher form Cape Town is posted to a small rural town in the Kalahari desert, she encounters a talented but uneducated little girl whose life she is determined to turn around. In her battle to teach Meisie, the teacher must convince Meisie’s father, a sceptical and hardened man, of the benefits and importance of education.