WRITER: Nomakhomazi Dewavrin

DIRECTOR: Nomakhomazi Dewavrin

PRODUCERS: Bridget Pickering, Angus Finney, Marc Schwinges, Louis Dewavrin, Gary Phillips, Mark Vennis

CAST: Alice Krige, Londiwe Mdletshe, Louise Kathleen

SYNOPSIS:
South Africa 1959. Nineteen year-old Khetiwe, a domestic worker, arrives in the Durban suburbs, driven by a need to support her family, yet lacking a critical passbook. The document that will allow her free movement.

Armed with only her determination and rudimentary English, she relies on her employer, Mrs Plum, a fervent anti-apartheid activist, to secure her legal working status.

Instead of assisting her, Mrs Plum, determined to dismantle the oppressive passbook laws, refuses to provide the necessary documentation, declaring herself Khetiwe’s protector. However, the police arrest Mrs Plum for daring to challenge them, leaving the now westernised Khetiwe vulnerable and unprotected. In jail, Mrs Plum’s ideologies crumble, revealing the superficial nature of her liberalism and Khetiwe has to make a decision of the path she must follow and be true to herself...