In the winter of 1991, the widow Hetta Blum conducts conversations in her London apartment with her deceased husband, the Afrikaans poet Peter Blum. Decades of reclusive living and her longing for her family and South Africa have made Hetta's mental state unstable. In these imagined conversations, which make use of letters and poems from Peter and Hetta Blum as source texts, one of the most discussed poets of Afrikaans is brought to life.