Regina Gelana Twala was a significant intellectual and political figure whose life and work were systemically erased from South African and Swati history. This experimental bio-narrative lyrically shores up Twala’s life to express her desire for recognition of her authorship and academic life. Set in the depths and surfaces of the sea, the tide washes up archival fragments from the apartheid era film, African Jim, in which she made a single appearance. The voice-over recounts remnants from her unpublished novella Kufa and her memories of working on the manuscript. The film critically inflects the central character of Kufa’s experience of arriving to the city of Johannesburg with Twala’s dreams and aspirations of being in the city and the tensions of transcending colonial and apartheid oppression and resisting patriarchy. The ephemera of complementary archival footage attests to the breadth of black women’s aspirations and those that reclaimed their dignity despite their subjugation.