The document summarizes the plot of Bessie Head's novel "When Rain Clouds Gather". It describes how a village in Botswana suffers from a severe 7-year drought. The people become desperate as their crops fail. An elder, Mokgobja, remembers an old ritual where children were sacrificed to a rain god. He convinces the others to try this. Two young girls are killed but it does not rain. The family faces consequences when they return to the village.