Synopsis:

A docu-musical celebrating the great popular jazz music of South Africa's Harlem in the late 40's and 50's. Through a legal quirk, black people were able to own property in this area, and a black middle class and intelligentsia were created, thriving under political and intellectual upheaval. This melting pot of talent, where musicians, journalists and bohemians in general could mix, was eventually destroyed by apartheid, the town bulldozed and many musicians sent into exile. The film chronicles this golden age using archive and featuring musicians Dolly Rathebe, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela and Nelson Mandela - who was the local lawyer.