A quiet, tightly wound horror film, Bass’ fourth and most briskly accomplished feature might flirt with the supernatural, but finds terror aplenty in social dynamics that, to many a South African, are perfectly ordinary.
Disconcertingly amplified sound design immediately sets the viewer on edge in an opening montage of domestic drudgery: soaking pans, rusted drains and knuckles tensed around a scrubbing brush, all in tight, greasy close-up.
Tsidi, meanwhile, has lived her entire life between two worlds. Largely raised in poverty by her grandmother in the family’s home township of Gugulethu on Cape Town’s outskirts, she has regularly visited her mother in Diane’s house, but hasn’t been made to feel any less of an outcast over the years. For her half-brother Gcinumzi , it’s been a very different story.
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