This South African soap drama, based on Sue Nyathi's Zimbabwean novel, follows Joyce, whose carefully curated social media marriage unravels when her husband's multiple relationships surface. The show sits in familiar telenovela territory: betrayal, scandal, and women picking up the pieces of a man's entitlement. That last part is where the Leans Progressive label comes from. The narrative frames polygamous behavior as destructive and centers the women's emotional reckoning, implicitly critiquing male entitlement without turning into a lecture. Counterbalancing that, the show treats non-monogamy as a source of collapse rather than liberation, which pulls the rating back from full Progressive. The result is a soap with a gender-aware edge.