After 14 years, Pietermaritzburg-born screenwriter, Rohan Dickson, will finally see his dream of bringing new crime thriller, Reyka, to television screens, realised. Set mostly amidst the tropical coastline and sugarcane fields of KwaZulu-Natal, the story follows the life of Reyka Gama, a flawed but brilliant female detective haunted by her past. The tale begins in 1994, when Reyka, the 11-year-old daughter of African and British parents, is abducted, while her mother, Elsa, a newspaper photographer is covering the country’s first democratic elections. Although she eventually manages to escape from her captor, Reyka, now a criminal profiler, still struggles to cope with what happened to her as a child. Things get more complicated when she is called in to assist an investigation into a string of brutal murders where the victims’ burnt bodies are left in the sugarcane fields.

Source: News 24 July 24, 2021 04:18 UTC