Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.

Salah is a young delinquent who finds himself forced by a band of criminals who kidnapped his mother to carry out a dangerous transaction and transport a shipment of drugs from Marrakech to Tangier.