Elvis Mahomba

13-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother Lindiwe thinks jazz is the devil's music. When Felix leaves his township friends to take up a scholarship for grade eight at an elitist private school, he defies his mother and turns to two aging members of his father's old band to help him prepare for the school jazz concert.

Dans une Afrique du Sud encore hantée par l'apartheid, deux policiers, un noir, un blanc, pourchassent le meurtrier sauvage d'une jeune adolescente. Des Townships de Capetown aux luxueuses villas du bord de mer, cette enquête va bouleverser la vie des deux hommes et les contraindre à affronter leurs démons intérieurs.