After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.

In 1976, Adriana van Aardt and her husband Johan, are having marital problems. Adriana drives to their holiday farm near the dusty rural town of Duiwelslaagte. En route she has to stop and pick up her husband's cousin Frans, whom she has never met; Johan will join them later. Sparks fly between Adriana and Frans. A journalist arrives and warns Adriana that Frans is not who he appears to be.

Sierra, an eccentric young black visual artist in Johannesburg discovers she is pregnant. The father, Tiro is her boyfriend and manager. He convinces her to consume an abortion-inducing concoction. Instead of ending the pregnancy, she is bestowed with the inexplicable ability to excrete gold coins.