A tale of the gradual political awakening of a white South African man in 1976. History teacher Ben (Donald Sutherland) leads a comfortable life that could not be more different from the harsh reality of his black compatriots. He still believes in the system when the son of his gardener Gordon is brutally beaten up by police at a demonstration calling for education rights and then murdered in jail. But when Gordon himself disappears without a trace, he starts having doubts and is forced to admit that South Africa’s legal system is a farce.
(Arsenal Kino)