Around 1960, Englishman Toby Hood comes to Johannesburg to run a publishing company. He is open-minded and befriends people with different social ranks, but the harsh realities of society force him to make a choice about friendships.

Director and writer Henning Carlsen captures the faces and streets of apartheid in a style inspired by John Cassavetes in this film based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and shot in perilous secrecy without official knowledge or approval.—Anonymous