Your grandma says apply for the job. The job wants to bulldoze your family's soul.
In a quiet village, a young woman is pushed by her grandmother to apply for a job opportunity on a new golf estate being developed in the mountains. However, when she learns that the estate will be built over her estranged grandfather's rooibos tea lands, she is confronted with a difficult choice.
Acting
Ramsden's restrained performance—silence that screams.
Cinematography
The rooibos fields shot like ancestral portraits.
Writing
No villains, just impossible choices and bitter tea.
Director
Jason Jacobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rooibos cultivation in South Africa's Cederberg region carries centuries of Khoisan heritage; the film quietly interrogates who profits from indigenous knowledge.
The golf estate as antagonist mirrors real displacement in South African 'eco-development'—luxury tourism colonizing the same land twice.
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