A street thug is shocked to discover a baby in the back seat of his latest victim's car, but ends up caring for the child back home in his Johannesburg township. As he watches the youngster grow, the villain rediscovers the beauty and emotion of life and questions his own immoral existence. Oscar-winning drama from South Africa based on Athol Fugard's novel, with Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto. In Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans and English.

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.