A midlife crisis so messy you'll need a shower after.
When an assistant professor's wife leaves him his life spirals into a world of debauchery, with only the hope of an old friend to save him from ruin.
Acting
Vundla's self-directed spiral is raw, unhinged, impossible to look away from.
Writing
Dialogue that cuts deeper the more comfortable it gets.
Direction
Vundla's gaze refuses to let his protagonist off easy.
Director
Charlie Vundla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vundla shot this in Johannesburg's suburbs to capture a specific class of Black South African professional men caught between traditional expectations and post-apartheid identity shifts.
The film's provocative title nearly blocked distribution; Vundla insisted it was essential to the film's exploration of emasculation as performance. The 8.0 TMDB rating comes from barely any voters—this is genuine underground cinema.
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