This warm, humorous film tells the story of the Phelophepa (Good Clean Health) Train that travels to remote areas of South Africa bringing primary health care to impoverished rural people deprived for years of the country's wealth and health facilities. With its staff of community nurses, doctors, dentists, opticians, pharmacists, counselors and medical students, the train travels throughout the country for nine months each year treating people whose health needs were willfully neglected under apartheid. The film follows the train's extraordinary manager, Lillian Cingo, her medical staff, and patients for three weeks during 1999 as they visit remote communities in KwaZulu Natal, one of the poorest provinces in South Africa.

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