Paradise in Bulawayo after world war two - immigrants came to Rhodesia to rebuild their lives - A german Gerhardt Kornveldt, Jeremiah Jacques a Frenchman along with a descendent of British pioneers Des Sinclair lived a laidback comfortable lifestyle in the sunshine under African blue skies - ignoring the elephant in the room a growing African population pushed aside an angry female guerilla warrior Thembisi believes in her destiny to free Zimbabwe. In Blue Plumbago William J. Moylan uses a narrative to describe Rhodesia's rise and fall after world war two up to the birth of Zimbabwe.