The Piano Player

South Africa, 1950: A gold mining village in the desert. To survive, a boy must be as tough and as clever as a grown man. Robert Nile is such a boy. His only goal is to run away, to break with the life he knows, to be success... Cape Town, 1966: A man shoots dead the parents of a young piano player, Alex. But the gunman cannot bring himself to shoot the boy and Alex is left behind, traumatized... Koln, Germany, 29 years later: Having dispatched an ugly man, the killer of a 7-year-old little girl, Alex reports back to his boss, Fernand, who informs him that his next job will be in South Africa protecting a powerful and wealthy businessman, Robert Nile. South Africa. Alex arrives in Cape Town. A new place, a new job - perhaps the start of a normal life. But Robert has been forced into testifying against mobster Christo Nichol – and no one is safe from Christo?s clutches. Alex realizes that Roberts?s connections to the criminal underworld