Granny telling her story to Ngyamia (Ali Torres) in the kitchen is intercut with the story played out in flashback.

A young woman is mixing flour. Voice-over narration by her grandmother Gilladi (Sylvia Clarke) says her granddaughter Ngyamia (Ali Torres) asked her for this story.

Hearing music, Della (Urshula Yovich) gets up and finds Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) playing guitar. She watches him before returning to the bedroom. Alvin smiles shyly. No words are said.

Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife.

At a village meeting, two highlanders are bartering a 'bride-price’. On offer are pigs rather than money.

Steve (Gary Sweet) arrives home from the office and has trouble getting into his house.

On the videotape, Alexandra (Helen Buday) displays the vibrator Steve (Gary Sweet) gave her on her birthday and accuses him of buying it for his pleasure only.

The camera slowly crawls towards the front door, over the first-floor balcony and into the front bedroom to discover Steve (Gary Sweet) asleep in his bed, watched by his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday

On the eve of her marriage to Dave Paris, Juliet (Claire Danes) becomes suicidal.

A TV news reporter describes a bitter rivalry in the city of Verona Beach. Engaged in the deadly feud are Romeo’s Montague family and the Capulet family of Juliet.