A South African librarian prepares for the return of the remains of his brother who died in exile.

A businessman is forced to spend the Christmas holiday in Durban, South Africa, due to a business deal gone awry. However, his plans are complicated by the presence of a boisterous family and their festive antics.

Based on Nicholas Ellenbogen's play of A Nativity, the trilingual (Afrikaans, English and Zulu) film tells a hilarious story about a government backed effort to put on a multiracial production of a play production of a nativity play by the local post office's staff in a tiny backwater village, on the eve of the new democracy.