This is the new South Africa and blind obedience is out of date. Which often makes it difficult for teachers here to enforce even the most fundamental of school rules. The principal patrols at night. One drunk boy has passed out on his bunk and cannot be awoken. A couple scowl as he stumbles upon them in a dark corner. Others are smoking joints in the bathroom. These children are celebrating their new found freedom in a nation where white supremacy is no longer sanctioned by law. Some feel a white man can no longer command respect from blacks. But the principal aims to teach these black children to discipline themselves. We join the students as they try to establish appropriate punishments for their peers after a 'heavy weekend'. In stark contrast is a local farm school, where the children are almost too scared to speak. Frank and personal stories emerge from the dorms and the staff room, in a very human documentary showing the quandaries all South Africans will be facing for years to come.

A Film by Mark Stucke.