The story revolves around an old feud between two white men which comes to the surface as war with the African brews on the frontier.

Commander of a frontier patrol, Graveney is as psychologically astute as he is depraved. The heroes pitched against him are two brothers, Jo and Stork, sons of the man that Graveney kills, leaving their mother a widow and fleeing into the uncharted lands of the African interior. One brother is white, one is black.

Mrs Crowther is the sexually frustrated wife of a lamed farmer who takes in the black brother as help after his father’s killing. When she seduces him, all hell breaks loose, catapulting the characters in the story; the well-meaning local schoolteacher Toutlom; the town’s crooked Judge; the alcoholic missionary Robertson; the boys’ African mother; and the neighbouring African tribe - all into a spiral of events which unravels as intensely as it began.

Yet amidst the gritty assassination and inevitable catastrophe, the uncontrolled lust and the blood-specked dreams, some kind of hope starts to break through. Can you become innocent all over again? Do good guys ever win? Perhaps only stories can tell us such things, and Africa is rich in story and well honed at storytelling.

THE BLESSING OF OUTLAWS 



100mins  - 35mm

Writer: Tom Hiney
Director: Bruce Webb
Producers: David Vicht
DOP: Melissa Byers 
Sound: Ashok Kumar

BLESSING OF OUTLAWS