[2] In 1983 South Africa, a young Vusi organizes a radical student protest that is soon put down by police, Vusi is captured and forced to leave for the United States where he settles down in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fourteen years later, Vusi returns to South Africa to attend his father's funeral at the village he grew up in.

Vusi's younger brother Ernest, a former soldier, constantly berates him for his choice to run away to U.S. instead of taking part in "the struggle".

The first address Vusi checks is Steven's apartment in Johannesburg, where he meets his brother's neighbor Karen.

After the show, the pair returns to the apartment complex and decides to check the room.

Karen climbs along the outside of the building to Steven's open window, where a thug attacks her.

Karen finally confesses that Steven had borrowed cocaine on "credit" from a drug dealer named Muki.

Steven was initially planning to sell the drug and make enough money for Karen and him to travel to the United States and visit Vusi.

With the truth revealed, Karen suggests they check out the local clubs to see if they can find any leads.

At a hard-rock club Vusi finds out about Karen's crack cocaine addiction, after watching her take a hit from a pipe.

Two of thugs pin Vusi to a wall at gunpoint, while the leader of the gang hits Karen for associating with a "kaffir".

Back at the apartment, Karen asks Vusi to visit her drug dealer and purchase a gram of crack for her.

Vusi pulls a gun and forces Sam over to the window, interrogating him on the whereabouts of Muki.

But he will agree to spare Steven's life and leave them alone, if Vusi is able to bring him 15,000 U.S. dollars in two days.

While playing on a slot machine, Karen is approached by Steven who immediately asks her for some cocaine.

An arriving Vusi locates Steven and becomes angry at Karen, for allowing his brother to become an addict.

Under threat of torture, they convince Sam to help them by carrying in a bomb that Ernest had put in a present box.

She lets off a burst by her rifle into the ceiling, giving Vusi an opportunity to approach Muki and stab him with his father's spear.

At the end of the film, Vusi convinces his fiancée to come to South Africa and settle in his village.

Karen considers checking into a drug rehabilitation facility to seek treatment for her addiction.

[3] The New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden wrote, "Dangerous Ground is too exploitative and finally too unconvincing to be trusted on any level.