Les Films du Labyrinthe

Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay, live-in son, Marc, wishes to live a more low-key life. While Marc travels frequently from Paris to Marrakesh to visit his lover, Dionys, Diane begins a casual relationship with the only somewhat dashing Roland.

In Paris, Bertrand, 12, runs away from home. While trying to steal something to eat in a supermarket, he meets Boris who saves him from getting into trouble and lets him stay at his home. Boris is an odd sort of man and Bertrand is an odd sort of boy. They gradually become acquainted...

A personal and metaphoric view of the apartheid conflict: the poet and writer Rakasha Ratshitanga, the narrator of the film, guides the viewer from his village in the south of the country to Johannesburg, revealing the political, economic and cultural origins of the tensions and sufferings which are tearing his country apart.