Mpilo's Diary

Mpilo was nine when his father left to toil in the bowels of the earth in Johannesburg, and every Christmas he and his sister Pinky would await his return at the bus stop. They would watch as other migrant fathers arrive to the embrace of their wives and children. Their father was never amongst them.

Fast-forward nine years, Milo and his siblings toil alongside their mother Thulisile, under the scorching sun at Baas Willemse's farm in Mnambithi. Milo and his sisters, Confidence and Pinky, then get a chance to move to Johannesburg. But there is a catch - Anthea, Baas Willemse's daughter, cannot bear kids of her own and desperately needs a surrogate...

It is in Johannesburg where Milo meets Nontsikelelo, an 18-year-old whose wealthy father is terribly ill and has a few days to live. A kidney transplant can save his life, but he cannot find a match. Until his wife notices something oddly familiar about her daughter's new friend, Mpilo. The teenager is a 'mirror image' of her ailing husband...