Slaughterhouse es un internado de élite en el que se prepara a los jóvenes para el poder y la grandeza. Sin embargo, un inesperado acontecimiento sacudirá literalmente los cimientos de su mundo.
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.