Thando Msewu is a bright young twenty-eight-year-old with a no-nonsense attitude towards life and love. She works as a communications team leader in Pretoria, and is completing a doctorate in media studies. She has sworn off men after her last boyfriend cleaned out her bank account and left her with nothing but twenty rand and her dignity hanging in the balance. So when business mogul Mandla Kunene tries to chat her up at the local gym, she’s determined to give him the cold shoulder. But there is something about the stutter Mandla is trying to hide that softens Thando to the seemingly overconfident man . . .