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Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors. She returns to her home village of Banana Bottom seven years later, and is increasingly drawn to the vitality of her native culture.
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In the early 1900s, Bita Plant returns to Jamaica after seven years of European education to live with Malcolm and Priscilla Craig - the white missionary benefactors who helped her become a cultivated young woman. They have Bita's future mapped out: training at the mission and marrying a dedicated theological student. Reluctant to accept this fate, she is drawn back to the festivals, beliefs and passionate love affairs of her West Indian culture. Such antics are not deemed fitting for a refined lady and Bita must choose between the evangelical guidance of the Criags and the sensual vitality of her roots.
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