"Master Harold"...and the boys explores a young white man's coming of age in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black men, are servants at the St. George's Park Tea Room owned by the parents of Hally ("Master Harold"), a 17-year-old white boy. Hally has been contronted with two very different role models for his imminent adulthood: his bigoted drunken father and the black man who has been his friend and lifelong mentor. By the end of the day, his life course has been set in motion on an unexpected path.