![]() Matekoni's advice, Precious winds up at the Go Go Handsome Men's Bar armed with a photograph of Kremlin. Alice Busang, suspecting her husband Kremlin of being a philanderer, hires the agency to find out the truth. The next day, Precious stakes out Happy's home, only to witness the man doing a jig seconds after his daughter has served him breakfast and rushed off to work.īack at the office, as Botswana's only female detective ponders how she will expose this "Daddy," a second case walks in the door. Being infirm, he's taken up residence in Happy's home, freeloading off her hard-earned success and her desire to be a dutiful daughter. Then out of nowhere the agency gets its first case: Happy Bapetsi and her dubious "Daddy." Happy Bapetsi's father has miraculously returned after abandoning his little girl and her now-deceased mother years ago. Relieved to have work after losing out on job opportunities to younger, more scantily-clad but less competent classmates, the off-putting Mme Makutsi still manages to make Precious think twice about her decision. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.Īlthough business is slow (as in non-existent), Mme Ramotswe gives the awkward and officious Grace Makutsi - who graduated from the Botswana College of Secretarial and Office Skills with unprecedented score of 97% on her examinations - a month's trial as her secretary. ![]() Matekoni and BK, the flamboyant owner of the Last Chance Beauty Salon next door, Precious opens the No. "Dumela, Mma." In Gaborone, Mma Ramotswe sets up shop in a small disheveled former post office in a neighborly Kgale Hill shopping center. Disturbed by what they've learned, Precious and JLB continue their journey, hoping that the worst has not happened - that the son has been murdered and his body used for witchcraft. The police and the local community are out in force with search lights and efforts to comfort his distraught father, Ernest Morapedi. Impressed by her ability to size him up, JLB is convinced she will do well in her new profession.Īs they near Gaborone and the skies darken, they encounter a tragedy - a young boy has disappeared. ![]() As they get acquainted, she tells JLB of her plans to be a detective. JLB Matekoni, the owner of the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors repair shop, comes from Gaborone to tow her in. When her van breaks down along the way, Mr. ![]() But Precious has her own ideas of what to do with her windfall: She sells the herd at auction and hits the road for Botswana's big-city capital Gaborone. Lucky presses an affronted Precious to consider his help with her great inheritance. And before his passing, he gave her 180 cows and requested that should she ever marry again that her second husband be a kind man.Īs the villagers of Mochudi mourn her late daddy, Precious's abusive ex-husband Note (a trumpet player) and her father's conniving former lawyer, Lucky Sesana, pay their respects. He told her to be patient but most of all "to love my country, Botswana - the finest place on God's earth." When she got older he gave her his van - a little white pickup truck. Rra Obed Ramotswe taught her to use her eyes, ears and memory, instilled a sense of justice and helped her take pleasure in solving a mystery. "I learned many things from my father," recalls Precious Ramotswe. Written by Richard Curtis and Anthony Minghella
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