Sleeping with the Enemy unpacks and unravels the complicated relation between those who desire to transform the townships and those who cannot endure the realities of informal settlements. Two black attorneys, a married couple, battle over a sexually violated and murdered child. The wife wants to leave the “concentration camps” called townships, but the husband refuses out of a commitment to his people’s economic transformation. His parents were brutally murdered by an Apartheid government; now, he is against the idea of sharing spaces with white communities. Without disregarding his feelings, she overtly confronts the husband to adjust his political belief for the sake of their security. As opposed to him, she sees both spaces as cauldrons of her miserable existence. She does not belong in the white world nor in the black one, the latter of which is governed by patriarchal ideologies. This story excavates the underlying complexities of conflicting resources and feelings. It questions the importance of the concrete and the abstract in relation to humans, especially those who endure hostile experiences daily.