Plot

When an intensely private boxing enthusiast faces the loss of her family home, she's left no other option but to fight for money. Surprising everyone with her ferocious ability, she sparks an unexpected journey to the top of women's boxing, in which ambition, greed and the harsh realities of working class life make her struggles outside the ring as dangerous as her fights inside it.

JAB is a gritty, uplifting coming-of-age drama set in the world of competitive women's boxing.

Bee Sondlo (19) lives in a working class home with her mother, Gladys, and disabled older brother, Mandla (23). A low-key loner who tries to live her life honorably despite the financial hardships of life in an area riddled with crime, drugs and gangsterism, Bees private dedication to boxing is one of her few solaces.

When the threat of losing her home forces her out of her shell, leaving her no other option but to fight for money, Bee surprises herself and others with the skill and ferocity of her boxing talent. Her dramatic success sparks an unlikely journey towards to the top in the seedy, dangerous world of professional fighting, where every fight in the ring is matched by her fight to keep her soul intact.

As she tries to balance her academic, boxing and family life as a young adult, Bee is tested, tempted, challenged and makes many mistakes. Dealing with issues of ambition, morality, loyalty, love and self-image in her encounters with the colourful characters who help her journey and the self-serving ones who get in her way, Bee learns first hand that people are more than they sometimes appear - and life is what good people try their best to make of it.

Through tough experience and hard-learned lessons, Bee emerges wise and graceful. In her unlikely triumph over gritty and realistic adversity; in making it against all the odds, with goodness and honour beating out malice and greed, Bees inspiring determination makes her a role-model for the ages for any young man or woman with a dream in any poor area anywhere.

JAB is a story of courage and triumph. Though set in a bleak, cold world, it is a warm, uplifting and heroic story of an inspirational young woman - a true original - who, against all odds, becomes a champion.