Two South African cops investigate the death of a white adolescent from a rich family, the victim of a drug usually taken by black kids from the poor districts.

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South Africa: the body of an adolescent from a rich white family is found in the hills around Cape Town. Two policemen are charged with the investigation: Ali Sokhela (Forest Whittaker), a brilliant inspector who still carries scars from apartheid, and Brian Epkeen (Orlando Bloom), who, despite his bad boy demeanor, is still an excellent cop. The investigation of these two friends and colleagues takes them to the poor district of the city, where a new drug is killing the children in its streets: an illicit substance that makes those who take it capable of extreme violence. The drug is a result of chemical tests done during apartheid, experiments aimed at annihilating South Africa’s black population. It turns out that traces of the substance, called tik, were found in the victim’s body...

Adapted form the book of the same name by Caryl Férey, Zulu nails all the elements of an exceptionally satisfying mystery: a tightly woven thriller starring two cops with radically different methods, whose realism makes audiences shiver in its depiction of just what it takes to extinguish a majority population. Some scenes are very raw and may leave some viewers nauseous, as much due to the cruelty of the events as to the potential the human race has for viciousness.