A quartet of stories revolving around four men in Johannesburg: a statistician employed on the national census, an engineer out on the town with his council connections, an artist with an interest in genocide and curios, and a contractor who erects billboards on building sites; each tries to make sense of a changed world after the demise of apartheid.

    This is the book Haring wanted to make, based on the outline of a monograph that was never completed due to his untimely death in 1989.