Our Story starts in London in 1990 where Mark met Alison while travelling, by the time he returned to South Africa almost 3 years later they had lost contact, all he knew was her name was Alison and she lived in PE , it was the days before the Internet and cell phones.

On 18 December 1994 Alison was abducted by two men outside her home, raped, disembowelled, her throat slit and left for dead. Alison’s story and her will to live shocked the world but little did we know it was the start of something incredible. The moment Alison got up and decided to live the foundations were formed for what would come.