The Man Who Stole My Mother’s Face

Australian filmmaker Cathy Henkel returns to Johannesburg where fourteen years ago, her mother was sexually assaulted and beaten in her suburban home by a local teenager.

Henkel’s despair at an ineffective police investigation as well as her mothers’ inability to recover from this violent attack drives her to seek out and confront her mother’s attacker. A disquieting film about justice, healing and bond between mother and daughter.