Genre

Historical drama with gothic mystery overtones

FORMAT & LENGTH

Digital 4K, 117 minutes

Language

Kaaps (historical Afrikaans), Dutch, French (subtitled)

Logline

The Cape of Good Hope. 1794. Trijn van de Caab, a freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her adored French employer and teacher to a remote slave estate for an unknown reason. There she is drawn into the heart of a strange spiral house where a cruel experiment is being conducted. As she weaves a wig to hide a secret, she learns that freedom is not what she imagined it would be. 

ADAPTATION

Based on the award-winning South African novel ‘The Spiral House’ by Claire Robertson.

www.thespiralhousefilm.com