A portrait of one of South Africas most prolific writers prison experience in the 1920s. Hardships and realities interwoven with humour and irony, glimpses into insanity and an introduction to the colourful characters who shared the brown walls with him. This is a love story, a tale of adolescent love. My first love. And it was a faithful and chaste love. She brought me strange laughter, loneliness and pain. During all the years of my young manhood, in whose arms did I sleep each night, if not in hers? Her name " Cold Stone Jug.