Shafieqah Saban and Zaahiedah Stellenboom are seniors in Manenberg, a township on Cape Town's Cape Flats where poverty, unemployment, and violent crime rates run high. Both girls were born in 1994, the year South Africa held its first democratic elections, and the film follows them through their final year of high school as members of the first generation to grow up without apartheid on the books. Shafieqah is already raising a young child while finishing her exams. Zaahiedah works to cover her own school fees because her family cannot. Cameras follow them through classrooms, homes, and the run-up to the Matric Ball, the formal dance that marks South African graduation, watching relatives and teachers who are proud of them and worried in equal measure about what comes after the diploma. Neither girl talks about escaping Manenberg so much as rebuilding a life inside it, and the film treats their determination to finish school as the real drama, set against a neighborhood that makes finishing anything difficult.