, Bedryf 1
Toneel 1
• In the misty Knysna forest Elias van Rooyen has to stop cutting yellowwood
beams because of a thick fog.
• Elias only cares about saving himself and getting rich.
• He wishes he had a license to hunt elephants for their ivory, which ships pay a
lot for.
• Things get really scary when his wife, Barta realizes their three-year- son, Lukas
is gone.
• Their neighbors, Aunt Malie, Sofie and Aunt Gertjie join in a search.
• They find reminders of other kids who were found dead. Elias thinks elephants
won't hurt Lukas because they are maternal.
• After eight days of searching the police tell Elias and Barta to accept that Lukas
is probably dead.
• Seven months later some rangers find a skeleton near the Gounarivier but its
hard to tell if it's really Lukas or just a monkey.
Toneel 2
• Nine years later we are in the Lange Kloof.
• Fiela Komoetie runs an busy household.
• She wants to grow her farm by breeding her ostrich, Skopper with a female ostrich
named Pollie.
• Her husband, Selling makes whips and shoes.
• Their life changes when two men, Lange and Dikke come to take a census.
• Fiela is terrified they will find out about Benjamin, a kid she took in nine years ago.
• She found him crying on her doorstep when he was three years old.
• Fiela tries to hide Benjamin and make distractions.
• When the men ask she says Benjamin is her bastard child but she eventually tells
the truth.
• Dikke thinks Benjamin might be the Van Rooyen kid who went missing in the forest
nine years ago.
• Fiela strongly defends her right to care for Benjamin saying it's impossible he could
have climbed over many mountains from the forest to Lange Kloof.
Toneel 3
Toneel 1
• In the misty Knysna forest Elias van Rooyen has to stop cutting yellowwood
beams because of a thick fog.
• Elias only cares about saving himself and getting rich.
• He wishes he had a license to hunt elephants for their ivory, which ships pay a
lot for.
• Things get really scary when his wife, Barta realizes their three-year- son, Lukas
is gone.
• Their neighbors, Aunt Malie, Sofie and Aunt Gertjie join in a search.
• They find reminders of other kids who were found dead. Elias thinks elephants
won't hurt Lukas because they are maternal.
• After eight days of searching the police tell Elias and Barta to accept that Lukas
is probably dead.
• Seven months later some rangers find a skeleton near the Gounarivier but its
hard to tell if it's really Lukas or just a monkey.
Toneel 2
• Nine years later we are in the Lange Kloof.
• Fiela Komoetie runs an busy household.
• She wants to grow her farm by breeding her ostrich, Skopper with a female ostrich
named Pollie.
• Her husband, Selling makes whips and shoes.
• Their life changes when two men, Lange and Dikke come to take a census.
• Fiela is terrified they will find out about Benjamin, a kid she took in nine years ago.
• She found him crying on her doorstep when he was three years old.
• Fiela tries to hide Benjamin and make distractions.
• When the men ask she says Benjamin is her bastard child but she eventually tells
the truth.
• Dikke thinks Benjamin might be the Van Rooyen kid who went missing in the forest
nine years ago.
• Fiela strongly defends her right to care for Benjamin saying it's impossible he could
have climbed over many mountains from the forest to Lange Kloof.
Toneel 3
