Due to the film's subject matter - a young adult embarks on a perilous journey to find his father who had been exiled from his community and joined a mercenary outfit as a medic - the film is considered to be South Africa's first road movie.
Based on the popular radio serial and photo-novel story written by Willie van Rensburg, the novels were successful in South Africa due to the fact that television had been delayed by the government until January 1976.