In a small dusty South African town, three people, returning after many years away, are about to meet their pasts. From New York comes top lawyer Sarah; from jail, and in chains, comes ex-deputy policeman Dirk Hedricks; from the new government, about to face his former torturer, comes Alex Mpondo MP. And in the town two old men wait - one for news of his son's murderer and one for his darling girl's return. Crackling with tinderboy energy, the scene is set.