Jabu is a young novelist tormented by his personal demons of alcohol and drug addiction. After a stint in rehab, and maintaining three months sobriety, he returns to Johannesburg, South Africa to serve on the jury of a film festival. However, his main purpose is to rekindle his relationship with his son, Timmy. He has grudgingly taken a job writing for a soap opera to support his child, while progress on his epic third novel has stalled. When his estranged wife announces she will take the boy to Europe for at least six months his plans, and sobriety, are thrown into question.

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Roxanne is a young independent filmmaker who has recently broken into the mainstream. She has just signed with an agency in Hollywood and is attached to direct a big budget sci-fi thriller. However, she has just found out that she is pregnant from a one-night stand. With legal abortions now banned, and torn between her career and motherhood, she seeks solace in her new friend Jabu and through their shared experiences, disappointments and joys they seek to live their best lives.

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala / Chra in Togo (West Africa) hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the First World War and of the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. The first German surrender in WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's cherished “model colony” shortly after the Battle of Chra. It marked the end of German “Togoland”. But Wahala's history and its name point to another painful past. Wahala / Chra: a place where the voice of the ancients resonates with present day pictures...

20 years of making documentary films, the opportunity to have a party, to celebrate a huge career, mine.
Pure happiness, that of making films about French West Indies for so many years, and that also of realizing that it is perhaps time to turn the page.