This disturbing, impressively performed movie by a leading African director centres on a dysfunctional family of poor whites unravelling tragicomically in a squalid Johannesburg neighbourhood on the eve of the election of South Africa's first black president in 1994. It's adapted from a highly regarded an Afrikaans novel by Marlene van Niekerk that's been compared with Faulkner, though Erskine Caldwell might be nearer the mark as far as the film is concerned.