Jo Hernandez is a wallflower doing a PhD on South African models and beauty queens. She travels to Cape Town but spends much of her time peeping at the hot neighbor guy. He has a girlfriend, though, and the couple draw Jo into a flirty friendship. Around them love feels within reach, and they have just the guy for her. Anele is a police psychologist. He's perfect and just the kind of guy Jo would have run a mile from until her cupids gave her a personality makeover. But does the affection of her friends come with a price? Before Jo and Anele can get together her budding will and his talent as a hostage negotiator will be put to the test.