Kismet

Kismet fate – destiny the illusive puppeteer that manipulates the strings.

It is 1997, and three years since apartheid was dismantled. A New
South Africa has emerged, victorious. Opportunities abound and hope
transcends, but for some the warped ideology of that era still lingers.
Doctor Henry Keyler a TV panellist, is intent on promoting unity across
the racial divides.

Attractive and alluring, his co-panellist, attorney Lexie Lewin, has
become a voice for abused women. For the most part, her marriage
to the charismatic Steve and their charmed life in Kismet Manor is
more than she’d dared to envisage. After a series of jarring events,
however, she begins to question whether she’s been living in delusional
contentment.

Kate Mabusa, a black maid, has truly and utterly loved a white man
and borne his child, yet she never speaks about him – not even to her
daughter – not even now that the laws have changed and love across
the colour barrier is no longer a crime.