Baber is set in a macabre barbershop against the backdrop of the Cape Flats and its patriarchal values. Dônnie vanie Reevas enters the barbershop for a shave. Vikkah, the barber, recognises him as the man who allegedly killed his only son in a mugging gone wrong. Dônnie is in possession of his son’s pocket watch. Mynie, the barber’s daughter, although highly skilled, is undermined by her father. Today she has a customer in her chair – the man who killed her brother.