Nakada's Touch
By1990 - A watershed year in South Africas tempestuous history. Police emergency powers are lifting, apartheid laws are finally crumbling, and heroic Nelson Mandela walks free after 27 years in detention. Into this volatile mix walks top-gun political journalist Sally Kaplan, a New Yorker on a working vacation in Natals Port Farewell. A risk-taker, her work permit under threat by a white government struggling to come to terms with a new sociopolitical reality, Sally is taken off the political desk by Natal Crier editor Deek Delany and reassigned a missing street-boy story in the red-light district, Baysend, domain of the night people. People li
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1990 - A watershed year in South Africas tempestuous history. Police emergency powers are lifting, apartheid laws are finally crumbling, and heroic Nelson Mandela walks free after 27 years in detention. Into this volatile mix walks top-gun political journalist Sally Kaplan, a New Yorker on a working vacation in Natals Port Farewell. A risk-taker, her work permit under threat by a white government struggling to come to terms with a new sociopolitical reality, Sally is taken off the political desk by Natal Crier editor Deek Delany and reassigned a missing street-boy story in the red-light district, Baysend, domain of the night people. People like stripper Elsa van Els, nightclub owner and Elsa's lover Clair Wilson, and young street hustlers Wayne van Els and Danie Marais. Together, they take Sally on a journey into a killers madness... _______________________________________________________________'Screenplay adaptation a 2004 SEMI-FINALIST in American Accolades Screenwriting Competition!'