A white middle-aged couple who've adopted a girl from Liberia, due to her grandmother's request while on a trip to Africa, discover that you can take a girl out of Africa, but you can't take the African out of the girl.

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Pilot Show

Ama, a freshman at Waldo High School, is given a warning by Principal Wells, for skipping classes. She and her friend, Nashae, toss Ama's collection of shoes onto a "shoe tree" near their neighborhood, and Ama buys a pie for her mother, (Christine), who is returning from a trip to Germany. Tim, Ama's adoptive father, has Ama do chores around the house that she's been lax in completing. Ama's adoptive brother, Ben-David, leaves for Arizona. Ama, while Tim is gone, has Nashae come over and in experimenting with Christine's makeup, spills base on her parent's white carpet. Christine comes home and is none too happy with Ama, but allows her to go bowling with Nashae (and her sisters Jayla, and Tealeanna Lindeth), and a boy named Jackson.

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