As a child Ali Neuman ran away from the Bantoustan of KwaZulu to escape the Inkatha militia, at war with the ANC, so illegal. Even his mother, the only survivor of the family, doesnt know what they have done to him...Today chief of the criminal police of Cape Town, window on South Africa, Neuman has to cope with two major curses: violence and AIDs, of which the country, the first African democracy, breaks all the records.
Things escalate when the daughter of a former world champion rugby player is found cruelly murdered in the Botanical Gardens of Kirstenbosch. A drug of unknown substance seems to be the cause of the murder. Neuman who, following the attack on his mother, investigates simultaneously in the townships, sends his right-hand man, Brian Epkeen, and the young Fletcher on the trails of the killer, without knowing what they are walking into...If Apartheid has disappeared from the political scene, old enemies still take action in shadow of national reconciliation...
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