This is a story about a country girl Deliwe (Cynthia Shange) who comes from KwaZulu-Natal to the city of gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of fashion and wins a beauty queen title. The fairy tale takes a turn for the worse when she is involved in a car accident that scars her for life.
The children Sonja and Helmut Schmitt have lost their parents in a car accident. At first, their grandmother takes over the supervision and care of the two.
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.