Len and his father, Son, might as well live on different planets. If the latter is a puritanical curmudgeon in his late 80s, then Len, a recent divorcee in his early 40s, is interested in one thing and one thing only: sex. They couldn't be more different - or similar. They are both storytellers. So when Len tries to get behind his father's good-time stories of World War Two, he discovers that its horrors are right here on his doorstep - just like those of the new South Africa.