Acting
It centres round the Louw family who own a beautiful flower farm in Gemoedsdrif. Their peaceful existence is turned upside down when unexpected guests arrive who threaten to reveal shocking family secrets. Old wounds are opened and new bonds are forged to save and protect the Louws and their legacy.
Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives.
"Toorbos" explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930's.
In a quiet village, a young woman is pushed by her grandmother to apply for a job opportunity on a new golf estate being developed in the mountains. However, when she learns that the estate will be built over her estranged grandfather's rooibos tea lands, she is confronted with a difficult choice.
When a car accident claims his mother's life and his father withdraws from life in a clinic, seventeen-year-old Gabriel Lombard is uprooted from his green, leafy suburb on Table Mountain and sent to live with his aunt Lotta and grandmother Lenie in a cramped house in Woodstock. Determined not to collapse like his father, he buries his grief behind a cool facade, wild lies and an overactive imagination.
A law enforcement officer has to remove people that are homeless in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.