“Oupa het gewaarsku: as jy met die vuur speel, gaan jy in die kooi pee. Oppas, Dolli, die vuur gaan jou brand!” In Kinnes van Somers, childhood warnings come alive in the shadows of a small community, where stories are both lullaby and curse.

Around the kitchen, whispered questions linger: “Wat maak hy, Mammie? Wat is sy naam, Mammie?” Dolli grows up hearing of Antjie Somersdie donker man, the one who walks between light and lie, dressed in another man’s sin and another woman’s name. But when the legend begins to stir inside her, folklore and flesh start to blur. Through folk drama, shadow play, and the crackle of enamel kitchenware and cobalt blue overalls, Kinnes van Somers re-members the Antjie Somers myth as a haunting confrontation between what we inherit and what we become.