Sarah Baumann, a disillusioned expat turned researcher, returns to South Africa and joins a ragtag team hunting a fugitive war criminal through the Kalahari.

SYNOPSIS:

MIER is about a woman who ran away from her country, her culture, her people and finds herself pulled back into the place she tried to forget. Sarah Baumann’s a mixed-race expat living in Canada, cut off from her roots. She thinks she’s just dropping off a permit to a task force, hunting a fugitive hiding at an illegal mine deep in the Kalahari desert. The permit grants them permission to operate inside the park and The fugitive is linked to a series of missing indigenous woman in the area. but soon Sarah learns that The case ties back to a violent chapter in her past she thought she’d buried. She has to make a decision, return to her adopted country or continue on this journey and close this chapter once and for all. She chooses the latter.

Sarah ends up on this wild, dangerous trek through the desert with a mismatched crew, including Indigenous Khoisan trackers and She starts learning how to track, how to find food & water, how to listen to the Land. And slowly, something shifts inside her. This woman who’s been totally disconnected from her culture, from identity, starts to feel the land again. Starts to fall in love with it.

By the end of the story, Sarah’s the last one standing. Everyone else is gone. She’s bruised, stripped bare, but something inside her has changed. Now she has to decide: does she go back to the life she built in exile, or stay in the place that finally made her whole?

This is Mier.

MIER