A hijacking in deeper Johannesburg goes horribly wrong.Zoe du Plessis, a paleontologist of Afrikaner origin, is suddenly confronted with her familys secret, seemingly wrapped inan old Xhosas spell. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of earlyhuman fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the unredeemable sense of guilt haunting her white tribe. She reluctantly seeks salvation in the love of a man scarred by South Africas darker past.