Hundreds of kilometres away from Johannesburg, on a farm in the South African Free State province, the shadow of Alan Silverman (A Beautiful Family) hangs over the lives and future of the van Zyl family.

Annamari made one mistake in her youth: Alan Silverman. It was a mistake that that will haunt her always.. It’s a mistake that can destroy the people she loves. How will she deal with the agony of watching her carefully constructed web of lies disintegrate?

Set during the death throes of the Apartheid era and the emergence of the “new” South Africa, When Time Fails follows Annamari and her family as they struggle to come to terms with a changing world.and their place in it.