Ngilifa, who has prospered in the capital city of Windhoek, returns with his sophisticated urban wife to the rural village in Ovamboland, in northern Namibia, which he left 21 years ago. They seek out his younger brother who still lives in the village in order to "free" him from the "backward" traditional life as a cattle herder. A comedy of culture clash ensues as the film negotiates the relation between the urban worlds of modern Africa and its traditional roots.