Add to all this, the internal musings of this robot about to lead the rest of all robots in an epic AI uprising. Rounding out the POVs is the political hotshot Stoker, who like all the others has his own troubles or dark addictions - a love for cross-dressing and a moony dream of becoming a singer, starting with perhaps opening for Riya's upcoming tour. Riya is a pop diva, one of the global icons of the nation who also harbours dark secrets like her own issues with multiple sclerosis and drug addiction. Sydney is a demi-goddess moonlighting as a nail artist in this town, while biding her time to wreck havoc and claim her revenge on the mankind - for having forgotten the old gods like her. Tau whom her mother claims to have raped her, when she was hardly 11. Nomvula, a young girl from the village outside the town who's blessed with secrets by the Gods themselves and who's secretly enamoured by this older man Mr. The narrative spools out from five different POVs all of them unique and absolutely compelling by themselves: Muzi, a young teenage on the cusp of his adulthood with his confused feelings for his best friend Elkin. Set in the distant future, around 2160 the story is set in the town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa.
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