The Gift of the Dead

John Lensing is in a mental institution in Pretoria, South Africa, awaiting trial for murder and numerous other crimes. A court-appointed psychiatrist probes into his past to determine the cause of his psychosis.

What he finds is a labyrinth of madness in a confused individual.

Raised in a strict religious household and, having been sheltered from the outside world for most of his life, John was immediately attracted to a hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and debauchery he was coaxed into by a free-spirited, tattooed goddess.

Triggered by the drugs and fuelled by the abusive memories he had suppressed, John’s mental state altered as he went from socially awkward to violent and obsessive.

The psychiatrist unearth a side of John that thrives on these violent and passionate extremes and another that loves intensely - to the point of obsession.