Everyone keeps telling Lenny Vincent that everything happens for a reason. He’s told it so often that he’s almost tempted to believe it. When he’s relieved of his position as coach to the under 11B soccer team at St. Benedicts, “everything happens for a reason.” When he’s fired from his job as a sports writer at a daily newspaper, "everything happens for a reason” and when his wife of 19 years leaves him for a young hustler, you guessed it – “everything happens for a reason!"

We meet Lenny on a very auspicious morning – the morning of his 50th birthday – a fact that seems to hold little significance to his overly–distracted, overly–peroxided wife, Barbara, whose pre–occupation with the treadmill seems to have long overshadowed their marriage.

No problem – there are worse things than your wife forgetting the most important birthday in your life! Right? Right! So, Lenny sets out to work just as he has done, every day, for the past 27 years – little realising that, by the end of the day, his life will have changed. Forever!

In the space of a few short hours, Lenny will lose his job, his wife, and his belief in inherent human compassion!

So, when his only true friend in the world, David Markowitz – a highly neurotic, failed bookie, suggests that they go drown their sorrows at a fancy restaurant, Lenny agrees – the bottom of his world has fallen out and things can’t get any worse…

Unless, of course, you choose a restaurant where a heist gang is about to strike. In that case it’s probably not a good idea to ignore the AK–47s pointing at you, stand up, and tell them what you think of them.

The inside of a car boot can be a cold and lonely place and as the gang’s car rattles along a series of dirt roads, Lenny bounces around inside like a lonely sock in a dryer, thinking that if everything does happen for a reason, someone has a lot of explaining to do.

Of course, if Lenny had had the gift of foresight – he’d have found that the reason for which he was so desperately searching was inextricably linked to:

• the village in which he was about to be dumped and the chief of this village – a Madiba–like man with an overwhelming passion for soccer.

• the chief's two sons, who inhabit completely different worlds: Godfrey has embraced the bright lights of the big city and Gift is a gentle son of the earth.

• money–grabbing property development company that will stop at nothing to achieve its goal of building a golf estate on the chief's land.

• a soccer match that will seal the fate of that land!

All of this will become abundantly clear to Lenny soon enough. He and David will embark on the adventure of a lifetime. He'll get to coach the chief's soccer team. He’ll take on the might of the evil property developers. He’ll fall in love with the woman of his dreams. He’ll reunite two warring brothers. And, most importantly, he’ll find himself.

Finding Lenny : a revealing comedy – with balls.