Cutting his teeth on carjacking, young Lucky Kunene dreams of bigger scores with loose-cannon chum Zakes. Moving to the rough-and-tumble Hillbrow section of South Africa's largest metropolis Kunene, whose heroes are Karl Marx, Al Capone and Dale Carnegie, transforms himself into a real-estate crime boss even as he tries to elude determined white cop Blakkie Swart, vengeful renegade Nazareth Mbolelo and Nigerian drug lord Tony Ngu.