Cesar Quevedo's life revolves around revenge. The Cape Town winter rains are starting when heads will be down and buried under umbrellas. That will be his time to strike.

Dimitri Alfieri also wants revenge but understands the value of waiting. In the meantime, he can't stop niggling away at the Hout Bay family, despite being warned off.

With drug money missing, two psychopathic killers with a reputation for brutality are sent from Bogota to Cape Town to find it.

Needing fresh abalone suppliers, Cesar Quevedo unleashes his peculiar brand of brutality against an abalone poacher to simply make a point and later, meets Melissa Samuels, a key player in this world and surprises himself by succumbing to her charms.

While Cesar Quevedo and Dimitri Alfieri spend their time plotting revenge, the Hout Bay family carry out a pre-emptive ambush with military precision against them.

Dimitri learns a very painful and expensive lesson that leaves him in a hospital with a huge question mark. How could anyone know where he would be at a specific time and what he had in the boot of his car?

In an elaborate but deadly game of chess, the stakes are high and the longer this game goes on, the more dangerous it becomes.