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Completed - ENGLISH-UNITED STATES - Thriller - 84 minutes

Log Line

Occupying a drug-fueled real and fantasy world of heroic gang mythology and rituals, a leader of one of South Africa's notorious Numbers prison gangs is shaken to discover his high-school son has started down the same gangster path. As narratives of his past collide with the horrors he imagines for

Previous markets

  • AFM 2018 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Khalo MATABANE
Writer(s) : Paul Ian JOHNSON
Cast : Mothusi MAGANO, Deon LOTZ, Presley CHWENEYAGAE

Producer(s) : Carolyn CAREW

Synopsis

After a young protege's murder confirms a prison gang leader's growing misgivings about his life inside, he joins a reform-minded warden's efforts to improve the prison, eyeing it as a path to early release. Gaining fulfillment and self-worth, he becomes a valued partner in the new changes before explosive gang resistance forces a deadly choice between the gangster he is and the changing man he knows he now is.

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Country(ies) : USA


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