Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, The Letter is a gripping family drama about a 95-year-old Grandmother with a fearless spirit who must overcome dangerous accusations of witchcraft that are coming from within her own family. Her grandson Karisa, travels home from the city to investigate, and it gradually emerges who sent the threatening letter and why.
But his Grandmother is not the only elder accused. A volatile mix of consumerism, Christianity and a systemic erasure of the past, is turning hundreds of families against their elders, branding them as witches as a means to steal their ancestral land.
As Karisa delicately navigates between his disputing aunties and uncles, the love for his Grandmother must overcome the imminent danger of the accusations against her.