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Completed - AFRIKAANS, ENGLISH, SHONA - Drama - 72 minutes

Log Line

A fugitive addict loses track of her child when she leaves him behind alone. Fear meets hope. Anger meets love. Loss meets meaning. One night, one city, four lives changed forever and bound together by the unblinking gaze of this innocent child.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2020 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2020 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2020

Director(s) : Louw VENTER
Writer(s) : Louw VENTER
Cast : Inge BECKMANN, Gideon LOMBARD, Tarryn WYNGAARD

Producer(s) : Elias RIBEIRO (URUCU MEDIA), Cait PANSEGROUW (URUCU MEDIA)

Synopsis

A night like no other in a dangerous neighborhood in Cape Town. A mother leaves her child by himself at night as she searches for a way to earn money to buy his medicine. The child, now lost, wanders the city streets alone. A policeman and his girlfriend drift apart. A nurse yearns for motherhood. The policeman must confront his black sheep brother, who uses the lost child’s mother to fulfill his darkest sexual fantasies. When the lost child is rescued from the streets and brought to the nurse, she suddenly knows what to do. One city, many intertwined lives – changed in a single night.

Production

Country(ies) : SOUTH AFRICA, NETHERLANDS


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