Charl spends the remainder of the steamy school holidays seeking out drinking cr?ches, oblivious to the relationship disintegrating in front of him. On Christmas day in South Africa's surfer town, Durban he summons the dead, and with a kiss in a cemetery seals his fate. As his wishes start to come true, Charl's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation taking him through suburban homes, decadent clubs filled with lava, seedy bars of 80's...