As elements of a thriller, this film investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor. Without witness or explanations, crime backstage appears as a jigsaw without pieces enough to be assembled, unfolding, however, into tragedy. A policeman arrests black persons suspect of having grown marijuana close to the site where the pastor died, rendering them an easy target. Meanwhile, the true assassin goes his way unpunished, passing as the new local vicar of the local. The sheriff, however, does not believe in the cover-up, and decides to look into the case.

     The stifling heat sets off the tension of the hunt starting from town and driving out through an arid landscape of desert regions. In this film, Belgian director Marion Hänsel once more takes up the issue she broached in her second feature, Dust, of 1982: the consequences of apartheid in South-African society.