Back of the Moon

28 July 1958 Badman an intellectual and the leader of the most powerful gang in Sophiatown lives life on his own terms in this crazy cosmopolitan half demolished ghetto on the edge of Johannesburg The gorgeous Eve Msomi a torchsinger on the brink of an international career is giving her last concert in the local hall before she travels to London Tomorrow legions of police will force the residents of Gerty street out of their homes and they will be trucked to a desolate township ten miles out of the city Refusing to face the bleak reality of black South African life Badman has decided that he will fight to the death for his home But fate thrusts Eve Msomi whom he has loved from a distance into his orbit And on this night that bears this beautiful encounter Badmans gang The Vipers sensing his vulnerability turns on them both