Die Oord (The Resort) is a South African, Afrikaans-language crime drama television series set in a holiday resort where a criminologist is forced to abandon her holiday in order to solve a murder.
A holiday town on the coast. Families who have been pitching their tents at the same caravan park for generations.
Children playing on the beach. Braais under the trees. Everything is idyllic – until a body washes up on the beach.
Martie Pretorius (Jana Kruger) is a criminologist going on holiday for the first time in years.
Her son, Paul (Liam Bosman), is at university, and they see little of each other.
Martie is convinced this holiday at the Seerust campsite in the fictional Kalfiebaai with her sister Elsabé (Erica Wessels) and her family can only do them good.
The holiday takes a dark turn, however, when a teenage boy's body is found on the beach.
Suddenly everyone is a suspect.
Brandi Jacobs (Melissa de Vries) of the local police thinks it is the Cape gangs sinking their claws into the small community, but Martie has another theory.
The wounds. The plastic bag. The Bible verse. She has seen it before. Fifteen years ago. A serial killer called Prediker.
Martie is drawn into the investigation against her will while trying to hide a devastating secret from her son, Paul.
The series stars Jana Kruger, Erica Wessels, Melissa de Vries, Dawid Minnaar, Jacques Bessenger, Nicole Holm, Zane Meas, Antoinette Kellermann, Laudo Liebenberg, Liam Bosman, Clayton Evertson and Amalia Uys.
The main characters are as follows:
Martie Pretorius (Jana Kruger) is a criminologist and her son, Paul (Liam Bosman), is a student.
The Cilliers family consists of Elsabé (Erica Wessels), Drikus (Laudo Liebenberg) and their son, Stefan (Heinrich Wentzel).
Martie and Elsabé are sisters.
Brandi Jacobus (Melissa de Vries) and Stoffel Cupido (Clayton Evertson) are police officers.
Brandi's uncle, Eddie (Zane Meas), is head of the SAPS station at Kalfiebaai.
The Groenewalds, who have also been holidaying at Seerust campsite for years, are Juanita (Amalia Uys) and Braam (Zak Hendrikz) and their two children, Joshua (Angelo Johnson) and Marioli (Luandri Reynders).
Lukas du Preez (Jacques Bessenger) is a widowed reverend living in Kalfiebaai with his daughter, Mia (Minke Marais).
Miems Louw (Nicole Holm) is the owner of the shop at Seerust campsite and has two children, Jacomien (Christie van Niekerk) and JP (Damian de Villiers).
Hester Bruwer (Antoinette Kellermann) is the mayor of Kalfiebaai and her husband is Thys (Chris van Niekerk).
Witblits (Carel Nel) is the town's homeless person who has eyes and ears everywhere.
The series was filmed in and around the Cape Peninsula, from Kommetjie to Melkbosstrand, as well as in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.
Die Oord was created by Christiaan Olwagen and is produced by Wolflight, Roelof Storm and Hannes Otto.
The writers are Christiaan Olwagen and Lorraine Burger; the director is Eva du Preez.
Original music is by Loki Rothman.