Dave Matters worked as a drug dealer for the notorious Wallace Brothers. After being imprisoned, he reluctantly agreed to aid the police in locating a rising criminal mastermind named Joe Taxi. But a botched drug deal left him scarred for life, suffering from a randomly selective memory-loss and obsessive compulsive disorder. Now, two years later, Dave leads a mundane life, socially impaired and held captive by his mental instabilities. When his brother is murdered, he is forced to revisit the gritty Cape Town he had betrayed in order to find whoever is responsible. As the anticipation of a mass city riot mounts, Dave inches closer to a climactic finale that would tear open the drug world to which he once belonged.