Buurtwag

Storyline

"Buurtwag" (Neighborhood Watch) is the story of a young married couple who, fearing the crime in Gauteng, sacrifice their salaries and move to a Cape Town suburb. But the Cape turns out to be a cruel mountain mistress; after three months in their new home, they still haven't made any friends, and then their house is ransacked while they're out on a long camping weekend and they lose everything they own. This kicks off a chain of events that introduces them to their local neighborhood watch, a motley mob of misfits who use the excuse of neighborhood safety to patrol the streets at night looking for whatever excitement the suburbs have to offer. Set against the backdrop of post-recession South Africa, "Buurtwag" is the story of strangers becoming a community and learning, in a society that seems to be getting stranger by the day, that survival is a team sport and that places aren't safe, but people just might be.