"A South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation"
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Social & External
The people behind it
Samuel L. Jackson
Langston Whitfield
Juliette Binoche
Anna Malan
Brendan Gleeson
De Jagar
Langley Kirkwood
Boetie
Harriet Lenabe
Albertina Sobandla
Warona Seane
Translator
Robert Hobbs
Van Deventer
Fiona Ramsay
Felicia Rheinhardt
Charley Boorman
Adam Hartley
Menzi Ngubane
Dumi Mkhalipi
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