A documentary that brings to light the dark side of the “iron road” – the railway line built by President Paul Kruger from Johannesburg to Lorenzo Marques in 1894 - and the “night trains” that ferried some 5 million Mozambican migrant workers between 1901 & the 1960s to work the coal & gold fields of the Witwatersrand that built the prosperous industrial economy of South Africa.

Integral to the soundtrack is the composition “Stimela” - composed & performed by the late great South African musician Hugh Masekela - evocatively capturing the enduring memory and trauma of journeys on steam-trains such as the “Night Train” - that chiseled their way into the souls of black men and women across Southern Africa.