An international cast of sophisticates on safari in South Africa are harassed by a killer lion and by a human killer in the last days of Mandela. Two Americans visit an African wildlife reserve run by a German family. A mysterious curfew restricts their movements, but guided daily forays into the Lowveld and liberating Happy Hours allow new relationships to form and to develop and to cause old resentments to resurface and to fester, leading to murder.