The play opens in a Bantu classroom in South Africa in 1984. Mr. Anela Myalatya, a teacher and A principal at Zolile High School, is moderating a debate between his star student, Thami Mbikwana, and Isabel Dyson, a student from the affluent, white girls’ school, Camdeboo High. Although the government at the time used race to segregate people, Mr. M. debate uses a debate competition between Zolile learners and Camdeboo learners to integrate learners. Despite Thami’s passionate closing remarks and his popularity among his classmates, Isabel wins the debate. After the rest of the class leaves, Isabel and Thami talk, and despite their different backgrounds, a friendship is born.
