Set in Johannesburg, Drum depicts Sophiatown of the 1950's, the breeding ground for resistance, a vibrant place, full of music, love and laughter. The era of big band Jazz and its fiercest political voices.

A bewitchingly evocative chronicle of South Africa in the 1950s, Drum depicts the blithe interracial hedonism of Sophiatown as it becomes aware of the insidious escalation of Apartheid.

Fun loving, hard-drinking philanderer, Henry Nxumalo is a reporter on the escapist magazine, Drum. Finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the injustices around him, Nxumalo's enterprising reportage on the slave camps at Bethal Farm and Johannesburg's ruthless prison system transforms Drum into an instrument for social change with a conscience. Henry's new intrepid path leads him into direct conflict with the Apartheid machinery.