Suidooster is a soap opera about the lives of the people in the fictional South African suburb of Ruiterbosch. The show follows the stories of the three families who live and work in the small shopping and business centre of Suidooster, along with their friends and the community as a whole. They inevitably share their joys, sorrows, disputes, romances, revenges and retaliations, misunderstandings, and jealousies, but it is also the story of a multicultural South African community.