From the first scene of Blood And Waterviewers stopped at the tragic history of the Khumalo family and the disappearance of his daughter. High school student Puleng (Ama Qamata) has grown up under the shadow of her older sister, Phumelele, who was kidnapped at birth. His parents are still grieving their daughter’s loss by celebrating his birthday every year and Puleng is distressed by his inability to let go of his sister’s memory. Cue Fikile Bhele (Khosi Ngema), a girl Puleng meets at a party, who has the same birthday with her older sister and a striking family resemblance. Their meeting leads Puleng (and the audience) in a complicated investigation in Phumelele’s kidnapping and takes all six episodes, until we get a response.
Although Puleng meeting with Fikile sets the previous mode of research, is his father’s arrest that gives you a proper start. Puleng’s father, Julius (Getmore Sithole), is arrested for human trafficking because the police believe he was selling Phumelele after she was born. The public humiliation and fights that Puleng gets in are of enough ammo to get her mother, Thandeka (Gail Mabalane), according to their transfer of schools. So, Puleng is in charge of to start attending the prestigious Parkhurst College, where he begins to use his mother’s maiden name, Des, and are available to come to Fikile.
Several obstacles immediately make Puleng an attempt to delve more deeply into the Fikile mysterious childhood more difficult: Chris Ackerman (Arno Greeff), the other girl’s closest friend that you do not trust Puleng from the beginning; Wendy Dlamini (Natasha Thahane), the editor of the magazine of club that has a great hatred for Fikile; Nwabisa Bhele (Xolile Tshabalala), Fikile cunning and protection of the mother; and Matla Molapo (Sello Maake Ka-Ncube), the powerful father of Puleng beau KB, that has been friends with Fikile since they were children. Puleng juggle with the fierce of the dynamics of student life in Parkhurst, University and research with the help of Wade Daniels (Dillon Windvogel), which puts all the tracks just in time for the season’s dramatic climax.
By the final episode, Puleng and Wade have gathered enough evidence to figure out the following: the Lady Bhele could not have children before the surprise arrival of Fikile, who was a home birth and are not recorded in a hospital; Fikile birth certificate erroneously dated and signed by Brenda Jaxa, a woman in jail for fraud; and Matla, a close friend of the Bhele of the family, represents the Point of the Grace of the Adoption Agency years before it sank when it was discovered to be involved in the trafficking of babies and the change of identities. Neither teen has any concrete evidence, but to quote Destiny’s Child “the writing on the wall!”
In the last few minutes of the sixth episode, Fikile faces to Puleng about all the ways she is wrong with their life since they met. It is in the middle of that argument that Puleng binder with all your notes of research reveals and Puleng says Fikile the truth about everything. “I think his real name is Phumelele Khumalo,” Puleng says she. “My sister”. Again, she does not have concrete test — after all, the Bheles could have totally gotten another stolen baby — but it is quite clear that the possibilities of Fikile be Phumelele are quite high. Now, what are you going to do with this information is what we would like to see in season two.
