A filmmaker returns to his family home in Durban, South Africa to isolate during a nationwide lockdown. He soon realises that his upmarket neighbourhood has always been isolated. Lifelong neighbours remain anonymous behind tall walls outlined by high-voltage electric fences. Each fortress is watched by home CCTV cameras; its perimeters patrolled by private security guards.

The only sign of his neighbours' existence is the local 'Crime Watch' WhatsApp group. Originally designed to build a more vigilant community, the group has been reduced to a toxic chatroom for second hand junk, racial profiling, conspiracy, paranoia and an ongoing polemic against the city's cutest inhabitants: the indigenous Vervet Monkey.

In order to get to know his neighbours beyond their WhatsApp digits, the filmmaker leaves the confines of his walls to make contact the only way he can: through their intercoms.