A group of old men refuse to leave Pomfret, an abandoned mining town on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, near the border between South Africa and Botswana. Many of them were born in Angola and were recruited to fight in the war of independence against Portugal. When the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) declared independence in 1975, they were left helpless and hired as mercenaries to fight in the 32nd Battalion of white South Africans against their own people. They were known as "The Terrible". Executioners, as well as victims, they were forced to defend the Apartheid regime in the colonial struggle in Namibia and in several South African municipalities. They currently live in extreme poverty, have nowhere to go and the traumas of their past continue to torture them.

Filmmaker Boris Gerrets died in March 2020 and culminated a unique filmography full of awards, with an unforgettable and disturbing film testament. The unpublished testimony of members of the 32nd Battalion and the staging of the biblical account of Judas Iscariot give voice to a group of imperfect human beings marginalized by official history.

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