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20122.0 / 1078 min
Drama

Overview

Desperation is a dangerous weapon

A deeply shocking film that follows the lengths to which an HIV-positive man will go in order to try and cure himself of the virus. John is an unemployed twenty-something hoodlum who lives alone in a nondescript shack in the small South African town of Duduza. The hand-held camera stays with John as he stops and chats with his friends, and shares beers and street food with them. But he also indulges in unprotected, passionless sex several times in his shack or around the fields nearby with any of the local girls he meets. He later finds out that one of these women is HIV-positive. When a friend tells him that sex with a virgin is an instant cure, John follows that option; and the nightmare begins.

Cast

Pethro Themba Mbole

Pethro Themba Mbole

John

Vusumuzi Ndumo

Vusumuzi Ndumo

Sibu

Crew

Anita Callander

Anita Callander

Producer

Michael J. Rix

Michael J. Rix

Director

Michael J. Rix

Michael J. Rix

Writer

Michael J. Rix

Michael J. Rix

Producer