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SYNOPSIS
The Fragile King tells the story of an older white man, Gerald King, who is closer to death
than life who gets dumped with his 15 -year-old grandson, when the child's mother dies in a
drunken car crash. The boy, who barely knows this old man, is shocked into a new reality
when he is dumped in Gerald’s flat in Durban by social services. The film pays homage to the
filmmaker’s grandfather.