Documentary about an oral history project entitled 'Forgotten voices in the present: post-1994 oral histories from three poor communities in South Africa', conducted by Dr Dale McKinley and Ahmed Veriava on behalf of the South African History Archive (SAHA) from 2007 to 2009. This research project is an attempt to capture ‘histories from below' of the South African transition through the collection and analysis of individual oral histories from residents in three poor communities, representing a meaningful cross-section of rural, urban and peri-urban realities in South Africa's post-1994 political, social and economic history, as lived and experienced by the oppressed and the marginalised majority.