Resumen
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magdas consciousnessstarts to drift and the line between fact and theworkings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a womans passionate, obsessed and violent response to anAfrica that will not heed her.