Seun Beukes, 29, is a descendant of the San Bushmen making his living herding cattle and riding horses across South Africa's Karoo, an arid region where he studies old western films at night to sharpen his technique. The film follows his daily work on the veld alongside the story of his young daughter, just starting school, in whom he places his hopes for the future. A record drought tightens its grip through the film, and the pressure of dwindling water collides with a second threat: the South African president's push for fracking as an answer to the country's energy crisis, with petroleum companies moving to stake claims on the Karoo's shale gas reserves. Seun and his family weigh whether to leave the harsh land their ancestors have worked for generations or stay and fight the drilling. The documentary sits close to Seun's daily routine rather than treating him as a symbol, and lets the drought and the fracking dispute play out as the real stakes behind his decision.