'Before him there was nothing, and after him there will be nothing', says Antjie Krog about Gert Vlok Nel, who is central to this documentary. Gert Vlok Nel has a modest production. He is now 43, has published two collections of poetry and released a CD. When his first collection Om te lewe is unnaturallik came out, the reviewers knew immediately that they had a rough diamond in their hands. "He dry your heart on a sackcloth," wrote Petra Müller in Die Burger Journaal admiringly about his love poems. Still, she had one point of criticism: 'That bundle is too thin! There must be more orphans from here that digter. Grt Vlok Nel lives in Beaufort-West, a desolate village in the Groot Karoo, the countryside between Cape Town and Johannesburg. There he lives with his father Albert Nel. Beaufort-Wes has given Gert Vlok Nel's poems and songs an almost mythical status: critics are talking about the 'real' South Africa, far from the hygienic, punchy, westernized Cape Town. Which, of course, he immediately puts into perspective: This Beaufort-West does not exist rightly; I consider this to be the case. In the film we meet Gert, his Beaufort-Wes and its inhabitants. His poems and songs are like a soundtrack about the village