The series follows Marietjie Barnhoorn, the estranged wife of a successful businessman; Leana Steyn, the private secretary of an elderly business tycoon, who is ruthless in her ambitions to overcome her impoverished past; and aging ballerina Mercia Meyer, who returns to South Africa after living and working abroad and has to deal with the hostility of her fellow South Africans.
DirectorFrans Marx
WriterFrans Marx
Episode 1
Sep 5, 1985
Andries Barenhoren gets a promotion and asks Marietjie for a divorce. Steve ask Leana to marry him.
Episode 2
Sep 12, 1985
Leana approaches Anna Meyer, Albert Jooste's ex-wife, to buy her shares in Kemkor. It takes some convincing to get her to agree to the transaction, but it soon becomes clear that Leana is a master manipulator. She even uses her guiles to convince Andries Barnhoorn to sell his company's Kemkor shares, and gets Albert to make her his sole heir.
Episode 3
Sep 19, 1985
Steve presents a new manufacturing process to Andries, who recognises it as potentially revolutionary and promises to give it some thought. Leana admits to Albert that she married him for his money, and he tells her that he spent all his money to buy back the shares and that the company is on the brink of bankruptcy. Shortly afterwards, Albert has a heartattack. Anna Meyer uses Albert's demise to manipulate public opinion.
Episode 4
Sep 26, 1985
Van Breda, an old adversory of Albert Jooste, tries to exploit Albert's death to gain control of the company, but he hasn't counted on Leana's ambitions. Andries returns home unexpectedly and gets an earful from his daughter, Annemarie. Leana's plans to marry Steve are dealt a blow: according to Albert's will, the moment she remarries, everything goes to Mercia. Leana makes plans to take Steve's project forward for Kemkor, but he refuses to sell the plans to her. Stienie arrives at the office to see Leana.
Episode 5
Oct 3, 1985
The pressure from her mother and her grief over Kobus finally gets to Mercia, and when the protesters disrupt a performance, she simply walks off stage and packs her bags to go find Kobus in Israel. At the airport she meets Steve and they become friends. Wessel leaves the army and Andries and Marietjie arrive separately to take him home. Wessel realises that they've split up and walks off. Leana takes her mother some money, but Stienie refuses to take the cash and locks her out of the house. After Leana and Andries have sealed the deal on the new manufacturing process, she reveals that Steve owns the copyright to the plans and that he will have to be managing director of the new consortium. Marietjie is worried that Wessel hasn't returned home yet. Wessel goes to stay with an old army friend, Leana's brother, Jack.
Episode 6
Oct 10, 1985
Jack needs money for his bike and when he steals watches from the shop where Suzy works, Suzy's supervisor suspects her. Then Jack visits Leana's office to get money. She tells him to leave, but he assaults her and her staff and vandalises the office. Steve realises that "Karlien" is really Mercia Meyer - and Albert Jooste's daughter. He asks her to marry her.
Episode 7
Oct 17, 1985
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Episode 8
Oct 24, 1985
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Episode 9
Oct 31, 1985
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Episode 10
Nov 7, 1985
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Episode 11
Nov 14, 1985
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Episode 12
Nov 21, 1985
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Episode 13
Nov 28, 1985
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Episode 14
Dec 5, 1985
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Episode 15
Dec 12, 1985
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Episode 16
Dec 19, 1985
Steve and Mercia return to South Africa and Mercia has to immediately make an important decision regarding her future.
Episode 17
Dec 26, 1985
Marietjie and Leana meet by chance and have a chat. Hettie is very unhappy about this. Jack sees Suzie and Wessel meeting and this has alarming consequences.
Episode 18
Jan 2, 1986
When Jack arrives at Barnhoorn House in search of Wessel, he starts to terrorise Annemarie.
Episode 19
Jan 9, 1986
Stienie tries to persuade Leana to help her look for Jack.
Episode 20
Jan 16, 1986
Leana turns up at Andries's office and learns the good news about Steve's project.
Episode 21
Jan 23, 1986
Leana immediately suspects trouble when she arrives home and Elzetta says that Jack is waiting for her inside. She looks for her revolver, but can't find it.
Episode 22
Jan 30, 1986
Kobus Dreyer decides to leave Israel to take up an important post in South Africa. Steve shows Mercia the new house but there's tension when she insists on wanting to know more about his work. Steve and Leana eat out together under the pretext of 'work' and are unaware that Mercia is watching them.
Episode 23
Feb 6, 1986
Marietjie is relieved that Annemarie is her old self again. But the peace is soon shattered by Hannes Sieberhagen's flirtatious ways.
Episode 24
Feb 13, 1986
Elzetta is unhappy with Leana and asks Mercia to come and work for her. Suzie takes revenge after an argument with Jack in a caravan park.
Episode 25
Feb 20, 1986
Johan says farewell to Kobus, who leaves Israel for South Africa. Hettie and Hannes arrive at the Barnhoorn house to take Marietjie to the divorce court.
Episode 26
Feb 27, 1986
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Episode 27
Mar 6, 1986
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Episode 28
Mar 13, 1986
Wessel sets up camp in an isolated spot and is visited by Monika Greyling. When he goes for a walk with her, the other members of the Greyling family search his belongings and steal all his money.
Episode 29
Mar 20, 1986
Andries begs Marietjie to return to him but she refuses. Meanwhile, Wessel is on the trail of the Greyling family, hoping to recover his money.
Episode 30
Mar 27, 1986
After her baby's birth, Suzie goes to stay with Mrs. Simpson. She visits Wessel in hospital and is shocked by his poor condition. Steve and Mercia are very happy, although she still regards Leana as a threat.
