In this poignant love affair, Portia Sibanda, a youthful and impassioned boutique manager in the city of Gweru and her son are victims of intimate partner violence suffering at the hands of her violent and severely alcoholic husband, Hardin Sibanda. Portia hid Hardin's footprints even after the accidental passing of their child. Portia keeps an innocent but deadly secret from Hardin. Skeletons from Hardin's closet appear in Portia's eyeshot during the course of the year leading up to their fourteenth wedding anniversary, but she puts up with them and continues to stand her ground out of love for him. Reality worsens as a mountain of secrets gradually shatters what she believed to be their unbreakable ties.