South African wilderness 1800's. Five years after their mother died, Rachel, a girl on the cusp of adolescence and 5-year-old Jamie find themselves on their way to the virgin gold fields with their father, Herman, as he tries to start a new life. When Jamie goes missing in a freak snow blizzard, Rachel braves the storm to look for her little brother.
A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men fight to the death, for a kingdom dreamt up by a rooster. A forgotten hotel. Two groups of men. All seem locked in this strange architecture from a previous era. Why they cannot leave the place, we do not know. A red and a black rooster share with the men the reclusion, witnesses of a battle, an abstract war, a nightmare.
A hermit, living in a mini-museum of South African 'glory days' is forced to face reality and shed his naive 'Rainbow Nation' idealism after he finds out his hero Nelson Mandela has passed away.
