Faced with mounting debt and the heartbreak of being unable to fund his children’s education, Emmanuel Mutema is a desperate single father pushed to the edge.

A young woman preparing for her customary marriage finds her future threatened when her former boyfriend, an escaped prisoner, arrives intent on stopping the wedding and disrupting her new life.

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she is cornered by her aunt to marry an old man as a ticket out of poverty, she is forced to make a hard decision.