After an attack in her house at Muizenberg Olivia Bailey decides to quit her job as journalist and travels to Oudtshoorn to meet her estranged grandmother.

While getting to know her grandmother, who lives in a feather palace and still drives an old Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Olivia begins to unravel her own history.

This is a history entangled in the feather boom, a time of power and wealth.
Pluimprinse tells a story of the difficult relationship between Jew and Boer, unobtainable love and how our choices in life influence the lives of future generations.