Part One 8 x 46min – A brilliant, ruthless and materialistic lawyer with a secret past has his life thrown upside down
when he has to fight for the freedom of an angry underprivileged boy, transforming into a fighter for justice. After his fiancée ends their engagement, Jama, a self-involved lawyer, loses his temper in court, insulting a judge. To keep himself being struck off the bar, he takes a pro bono case representing Zola, an angry 17-year-old kid from Cosmo City, charged of murder. At first, all he wants to do is get the case out of his hands as fast as possible, but through the course of the case, seeing the reality of Zola’s life, Jama’s forced to see how, in different circumstances, he could have been Zola. Jama journeys from a lawyer who is driven by money, to a lawyer driven to achieve justice whatever the personal, professional and social cost, unwittingly allowing Jama to be able to heal from the hidden wounds of his own past. Part Two 8 x 46min- A changed Jama makes his trip back home in Mpumalanga to find his father, who abandoned his family in Jama’s youth, having returned to sow chaos into Jama’s life. Meanwhile, a young man is murdered in an apparently homophobic attack in City, an area which Solezwe, Jama’s benefactor, best friend, and a politician, is hoping to win as an independent in a by-election. Solezwe’s up against a terrible political rival, who he shares a deep history with, a history that connects Solezwe, this man, and Mnisi-Jones, a corrupt official. Betty is digging into Mnisi-Jones’ background as murder, politics, love and all embroiled in a single conspiracy that Jama has to uncover while dealing with the wounds of his past, which have been brought back to life by the return of his father and the murdered young man’s case. Throughout all this Jama and Solezwe, are at each other’s sides, but at the end, their different belief systems around what being a good man actually is, will turn them into reluctant, but deadly, enemies.
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