Rainmaker documents the extraordinary coming-of-age journey of a youth from Bonteheuwel. Ky, a young gangster, knows that township power is in the hand that cocks a 9mm gun. But one day this power gets him into more trouble than he can handle and he is forced to flee his community and the way of life he knows. Saved from certain death in the gutter by a man who recognises ancient strands in a dream the young man has had, Ky is spirited away deep into the forbidding mountains and into the care of Zimry, a /Xam shaman. Zimry is a Bushman, but the reason Ky pulled the trigger on a gang boss was because he was taunted as being one. It was a taunt he had lived with all his life and a name he despised. The old man attempts to teach Ky the ways of his ancestors, but Ky’s rejection of his own link to this ancient wisdom jeopardises his life, and the future of his people.