Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of
reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a
black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels
shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous
feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness
starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited
imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's
passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed
her.