Due to the film's subject matter - a young adult embarks on a perilous journey to find his father who had been exiled from his community and joined a mercenary outfit as a medic - the film is considered to be South Africa's first in the "road movie" genre.
Based on the popular radio serial and photo-novel story written by Willie Van Rensburg: the photo-novels were successful in South Africa due to the fact that television had been banned by the apartheid government.