A Small Town Called Descent

September. 30,2010

Rating：

6.5

Genre：

Drama Crime

Keywords：

Immigrant Xenophobia Special Unit

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Somewhere in a remote part of South Africa a heinous crime is committed. Against the backdrop of xenophobic riots that have swept across the country, two Zimbabwean brothers along with a local girl are brutally attacked. The older brother is burnt alive whilst his younger sibling and the girl are sodomised, raped and left for dead. Three investigators from the elite crime fighting unit known as the Scorpions are deployed to a small town called Descent.

Vusi Kunene as

Paul Buckby as

Vuyo Dabula as

Getmore Sithole as

Hlubi Mboya as

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