The van Wyk women find themselves doing the unimaginable in a desperate attempt to salvage some dignity in the shadow of a grave betrayal on this week’s M-Net period drama, Feast of the Uninvited.

With Daantjie van Wyk on the run whilst those closest to him believe him to be dead, last week’s episode saw the face-to-face meeting of the van Wyks with their enemies. The van Wyks were forced to come to terms with the fact that they had become their own enemy in addition to the British. Martie van Wyk, poisons one of the “traitors”, a South African soldier who diverted to the side of the British. Newlyweds Petrus and Nellie are separated as the men go back to the front, and Daantjie commits the unthinkable by succumbing to his urges and raping his beautiful wife.

The British arrive at the van Wyk farm where the begrudged farm-hand Greeff betrays the van Wyks by ratting out Martie’s hiding place to the British. Captain Brooks holds an informal trial for Martie in the van Wyk house, and, against the very foundations of his training and morals, finds himself swept away by the sheer beauty of the now “soiled” widow Magrieta. The van Wyk women realise that there might be an opportunity to use the Captain’s enamoured state to their advantage.

Upon the dismissal of Martie’s case, the rest of the women in the house decide to invite the Captain for dinner that night. But do they invite him to blackmail him or simply to embarrass him on the eve of the scorching of their precious farm and all they hold dear to them? And why on earth would a man of the stature and rank of Captain Brooks accept such an offer?

Catch Feast of the Uninvited on M-Net, 13 February at 20:00.