Kanya Viljoen

Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives.

During a church service, Kyleigh celebrates her engagement as an affirmation of the life she has chosen: one of faith, family and community. But when Lara, a woman she once loved, quietly enters the room, the mood of the morning shifts. As they make polite conversation the past starts pressing gently but persistently against the present. As ek kon kies examines how one moment can shatter certainty, and it asks whether the love you choose, is the love you believe you deserve.

A teenage girl, Isabel, and her younger brother Joshua, have always been each other’s refuge in a small, mining town of South Africa, but Isabel loses grip of the relationship, when Joshua endures a violent initiation at an all-boys’ high school and withdraws from her. With no one to turn to, Isabel is forced to find resilience within herself and to call Joshua to reflect on who he is becoming.

Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives.

During a church service, Kyleigh celebrates her engagement as an affirmation of the life she has chosen: one of faith, family and community. But when Lara, a woman she once loved, quietly enters the room, the mood of the morning shifts. As they make polite conversation the past starts pressing gently but persistently against the present. As ek kon kies examines how one moment can shatter certainty, and it asks whether the love you choose, is the love you believe you deserve.

A teenage girl, Isabel, and her younger brother Joshua, have always been each other’s refuge in a small, mining town of South Africa, but Isabel loses grip of the relationship, when Joshua endures a violent initiation at an all-boys’ high school and withdraws from her. With no one to turn to, Isabel is forced to find resilience within herself and to call Joshua to reflect on who he is becoming.