It is school holidays and there is a heatwave in Sibaya, where Lena and her cousin Thembi live. There isn’t much to do in the stop-over railway town and the cousins sneak ciders (stolen from her family’s liquor store) and cigarettes into Thembi’s bedroom. They lock themselves in for the entire afternoon, declaring the holidays the most boring yet. Then Thembi suggests something that shocks Lena. She says they should try and find Lena’s father, whom Lena hasn’t seen in over six years. And who, in her opinion, is as good as dead…