Hard Livings is a documentary film about a family, but in effect it's a film about a city, a country and a continent plagued by ills stemming from inequality. It's a film that has no choice but to be entertaining because the story is so compelling, yet it's a film rooted in the quest for solutions - for entertainment only serves to distract, solutions is what the world really needs.

Cape Town is considered one of the most beautiful places in the world, but beneath her angelic mask lie scars. Scars obtained during Apartheid; scars that drive the underworld of gangsterism and drugs that had taken hold of the city. Rashaad Staggie was a man that made the most of these scars. With his twin, Rashied, as well as his other brothers, Solomon, Agmat and Amien at his side, and through the use of violence and sheer cunning, their gang - The Hard Livings - became the most feared street gang in the whole of Africa.