Adze Ugah
Director
Moderated
A Johannesburg visual artist's consumption of an abortion-inducing concoction leaves her with strange abilities, making her a target of a greedy pawn shop owner.
2024
Fiction
Feature Film
South Africa
isiZulu, isiXhosa, English, Afrikaans
2024/07/19
90 minutes
Finished
Durban Internation Film Festival
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. An uproarious and darkly comedic chain of events follows as Skorra, a pawn shop owner and his henchmen invade her home with the hope of extracting the gold coins. Her loft, a sanctuary of artistic expression, becomes an unexpected battleground of wits and resolve, and the pursuit of riches spirals into a deadly showdown.