What happens when a young woman lawyer leaves her profession and joins the rough and tough mining industry, to ruffle many a feather in the previously male-dominated sector? An ordinary mineworker goes in the opposite direction and ascend to the topmost rung in the judiciary.
He revels in the fatherly joys of grooming his son to wreak havoc in the mines as a self-styled labour unionist. His exploits culminates in the unfortunate event of the Marikana Massacre and, later on, in the longest running industrial action in the sector.