Nakada's Touch

1990 - A watershed year in South Africa's tempestuous history. Police emergency powers are lifting apartheid laws are finally crumbling and Nelson Mandela walks free after 27 years in detention. Into this volatile mix walks political journalist Sally Kaplan a New Yorker on a working vacation in Natal's Port Farewell. A risk-taker her work permit under threat by a white government struggling with a new sociopolitical reality Sally is taken off the political desk by Natal Crier editor Deek Delany and reassigned a story in 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 killer's madness. . .