Francois van Heerden is a white, Afrikaans-speaking family man in his mid-40s. Francois has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter with another man unravels his clean and precisely controlled life.

Francois van Heerden is a white, Afrikaans-speaking family man in his mid-40s. Francois has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter with another man unravels his clean and precisely controlled life.

" Skoonheid exposes the private shames and secret obsessions of a conservative, white, Afrikaans man. A study in regret, lust and self-destruction"--http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-07-24-skoonheid-a-film-that-confronts-truths-both-beautiful-and-ugly