Abyss Boys, The

Runtime: 26 MINUTES minutes

Coming of Age

Tagline

There’s no escape when you’re in this deep

Logline

After his younger brother becomes enchanted with a gangster abalone poacher, a teenage boy who knows how to dive for the precious shellfish, devises a plan to escape their small fishing village, but it ends in tragedy because good things rarely happen to poor people.

Synopsis

The film is set in the slums of a small fishing community on the Southern coast of South Africa, where the world of illegal abalone poaching has become so dangerous that Jimmy, a legendary ex diver, decides he has to escape.

Wanting to save A.B, his rebellious young brother from Gonyama, the violent but charismatic gangster who A.B admires, Jimmy devises a plan to give him and A.B a new beginning and a new life.But on a stormy winter’s day when Jimmy gets his chance to escape, nothing can prepare him for what happens when his plan leads to a tragic and brutal ending.