Toorbos

synopsis

Toorbos explores the Afrikaner feminine, through her fragility and power. This magical realist period drama, set in South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930's, follows the free-spirited Karoliena as she is coaxed into marriage to a townsman and has to navigate the realities of progress, oppression of society, denying her true self, love and war back to her own personal freedom.