The Wound

2017

Xhosa

6.8

♡ 4

John Trengove Director

Anga Ntsepe as Lesego

Loyiso 'Lloyd' Ngqayana as Vija's Initiate

Hellman Hlomuka as Vija's Initiate

Zimi Banisi as Vija's Initiate

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.