Blood Brothers

The play begins with the arrival of a white couple at a remote and crumbling border crossing in the African bush. When they try to pass a day-old, black baby as theirs, the border guard smells a crime. He becomes more suspicious when they fail to pinpoint the location of the Bush Hospital, where they claim their baby was born, or produce documents to support their story. While they wait for the police to investigate, the border guard extends traditional hospitality to the travellers and he and Ruben, the white man claiming to be the natural father of a black baby, forge a friendship bordering on brotherhood - well, almost.