In the arid Karoo, the shy and innocent Natalie marries the young policeman Bakkies, equally inexperienced and uncertain.

His maladroit effort at consummation leads her to grab his revolver and flee to her beloved horse, that is stabled beside the pastor's house.

Calling on her heavily pregnant friend Poppie, she takes her off on a quest to find Branco, a trucker who is the father of the imminent child.

Meanwhile, the police officer Beauty drives up from Cape Town into the desert to see her husband Billy, who is serving 15 years for murdering his brother and is suspected of breaking out to kill the pastor.

[5] Variety magazine called it "an exhilarating fusion of contemporary western, policier, and girls-gone-wild road movie... [that] represents something of a feminist milestone for a national cinema where genre film in particular has hitherto been a boys’ game".