Jo returns to South Africa after ten years in the UK to cover the riots sweeping the Jo`burg township of Alex. Nico, her estranged Afrikaner father, reappears & asks her to help prove his innocence in the murder of a black man, abducted by the security forces decades earlier. As they set off on a road trip through South Africa`s now-unfamiliar landscape, it becomes clear that Nico knows more about the murder than he is letting on, & Jo begins to wonder whether she is his accomplice, or his captive. Set against the backdrop of a country struggling to absorb its bloody history & forge a new democracy, Call It Dog asks whether justice & truth are more important than the bonds of loyalty & love, & explores what is it like to feel you no longer belong in the land of your birth
- or to your own family.