Cornelis Esterhuyse

A man inherits a piece of land in Pretoria, but when he comes to claim his inheritance, he realizes that it is where the Union Buildings are built.

A bleak and violent story of delinquency and broken family ties. Christiaan MacDonald escapes from the reformatory where he has been serving a sentence for car theft and asks his sister Dina for help. When his father tells Christiaan he is adopted, and furthermore is banished from the MacDonald family, the young man responds with criminal behavior that rip the family apart.