After his wife commits adultery , a proud South African farmer feels ostracized by his community and forms a codependent relationship with a French anarchistic cult couple that eventually turn violent on him and his family, but his fight for survival comes at tragic cost and he is confronted by the depths of his shame.

As Nir Shelter said: ?the plot is thick and confusing. I'm still not clear on several elements and how they dramatically relate to each other. ?Did?the farmer get involved in the cult through the influence of the French couple? ?Or was its just a defining characteristic of the couple that they members of a cult? ?Covert members -- he didn't know they were true believers until it was too late?

Stripped down to its essence, what is the story about? ?In 25 words or less -- forget about a well-formed logline for now-- what is the nucleus of the concept around which the entire story--all the characters, all the elements--revolve?

It sounds like a very thick plot, too thick in fact. There are many plot points which lack a direct relation to each other and many character descriptions that don't add much to the story.

The fact that all the events you mentioned happened in the true story, doesn't mean they all? need to make it into your story. Best to simplify the concept by choosing one event that happens to the main character, and one goal he must achieve as a result.

Also to face his shame is not a goal, or not a good cinematic one. What will he have to do, that can be filmed by a camera, in order to face his shame? Make that his goal. Then reveres engineer from the goal a fitting event that pushes him to need to achieve it.

He gets married to a? new woman? at the midpoint that totally upsets the French and this escalates the conflict.