When an 11-year-old street kid from Johannesburg named Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa) finds escape from an irate drug dealer in the van of a middle-aged ex-soldier named Kobus (Ian Roberts), their lives intersect, and a touching, odd and improbable friendship is born. As the pair sell furniture wax out of Kobus' van on their way to Cape Town, South Africa, Kobus helps Wonderboy look for his displaced family. Wonderboy, in turn, begins to view Kobus as a father figure.
When an 11-year-old street kid from Johannesburg named Wonderboy (Kagiso Mtetwa) finds escape from an irate drug dealer in the van of a middle-aged ex-soldier named Kobus (Ian Roberts), their lives intersect, and a touching, odd and improbable friendship is born. As the pair sell furniture wax out of Kobus' van on their way to Cape Town, South...