True events - In 2012 a group of South African mine workers went on a wage increase strike that led to what would become a national tragedy that saw 34 miners being brutally killed by the police.
The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.
