A teenage Xhosa initiate recuperates in a mountain hut after a ritual circumcision. News arrives that his elders won't be coming to care for him, but no reason is given. With nothing but his growing pain and his young brother for company, the initiate's panic turns to desperation.

2023 film directed by John Trengove

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.