Pulse of Truth

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Pulse of Truth

Growing up, Sandiswa Mncwango was viewed as a legacy child because her father owned the leading private hospital in KwaZulu Union Bay City, Mncwango Medical Hospital. She tried to distance herself from her father’s profession, however, after seeing how the less fortunate suffer from a lack of proper medical support, she switched her course to medicine, but registered with her mother’s last name, Mthembu, which she then continued to use.

Pulse of Truth

Talented paramedic, Sandiswa Mncwango has dedicated herself to escaping the shadow of her father’s successful career and forging her own path.

Her world is turned upside down when she responds to a routine emergency call: a young woman, brutally wounded and left in an abandoned building, scarred with ritualistic symbols. Sandiswa soon discovers that the incident may be connected to numerous unsolved missing women cases.

She spirals into an investigation, bringing her into an uneasy partnership with Detective Nxumalo, whose been investigating the case of missing women for months after he lost his daughter to similar brutal circumstances. Together they uncover a hidden network with deep, dangerous connections.

The medic wants to save her patient. The detective wants the perpetrator dead.

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