A Change in Perspective

John Grimm, a recent engineering graduate, is offered a position to complete an irrigation barrage in the jungles of Africa. He is encouraged to accept the assignment by his secretary, Mary Westlake, his childhood sweetheart. Mary is deeply in love with John but keeps her feelings secret because he has affirmed that he will never marry. Once in Africa, John finds that the irrigation project has been beset with problems, many because of the incompetence of the former supervisor, Dugan. Bitter and jealous of John, Dugan hires Dick Morton to sabotage the project. To stop Morton, Mary, who suspects him of undermining John, goes to his tent. As she attempts to convince Morton to switch his loyalties to John, John enters the tent and realizes that he is in love with Mary. After a series of misadventures caused by Arab attacks, lions and the dynamite explosion of a bridge, John is able to complete the irrigation project. John and Mary then return home to begin their life together.

One night Karlijn [23] finds herself lying in between chalk lines which are drawn on the asphalt. She causes an accident. MBAROTE (22), an illegal refugee from Sudan, gets hurt. Finally Karlijn has a real goal. She wants to take care of Mbarote. When she finds out that Mbarote is planning to leave Holland, she tries to keep him by her side. Mbarote has set his own goals and has to leave for Canada the next day. When Karlijn is meeting Loes again something has changed. Karlijn is through with their symbiotic boredom, she still knows how you could best move remove stains, but doesn't feel like talking about it anymore. For the first time in her life Karlijn has really felt something. She knows where she should start making changes.