She decided to go to get her Masters in Publishing and Media Studies at Oxford Brookes University in England.

While there, she meets a Nigerian river man in a bar, who strikingly resembles Refentše, and falls in love with him.

Refilwe goes home to her family in the town of Tiragalong to die, but she is judged and persecuted for having AIDS.

Eventually it is revealed that this sex is markedly accidental; a result of Sammy trying to comfort Lerato when she felt Refentše was growing distant from her.

He went through a period of drug experimentation that led him to repeatedly have sex with prostitutes, and at one point did this in front of Bohlale.

The guilt of causing Refentše to commit suicide ends up driving Sammy mad.