Blood On The Payslip

A searing excavation of dignity in the machinery of modern exploitation.

In the shadow of Johannesburg’s factories, Sipho Mbatha trades his health for peanuts, his future for tomorrow’s bread. When a ＂disciplinary hearing＂ turns into a life sentence of debt, he is forced to become a forensic accountant of his own destruction. Blood on a Payslip walks the razor’s edge between novel and documentary, charting the brutal mathematics of poverty: how a man’s breath, his time, and his love are converted into numbers on a stained piece of paper and how, in one defiant act of testimony, those numbers can be made to scream.