Apartheid tore their country apart... their family held them together
Оригінальна назва
Ekhaya: A Family Chronicle
Випущено
23.01.1997
Країна
CA
Жанр
Драма
Виробничі компанії
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Inner City Films, Circle Blue Films, Kurira Films International
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
1
Кількість епізодів
13
A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid.
Afraid that South African authorities still want him, Darryl begins recalling his politically oppressive childhood in his former home.
Darryl's mind is flooded with boyhood memories of fighting at school, his love of a white girl and the arrests of Boytjie and Russell on charges of murder.
After a run-in with David, Darryl recalls his brother's clandestine political activities in Soweto and Boytjie facing formal charges of murder.
Darryl's publisher plans to add text to his book that the author finds unacceptable.
When Darryl fears that a man he sees talking to Lerato has been following him, he remembers a man he saw knifed in South Africa and Boytjie's murder trial.
Despite David's insistence, Darryl is reluctant to join the Canadian anti-apartheid movement; Darryl recalls his days in boarding school.
Rosa worries about Darryl's obsession with the man following him; Darryl remembers Veronica's decision to pass as white and live in the suburbs.
Darryl considers speaking at a protest at the South African consulate, which prompts him to remember how easy it is to become an enemy of the state.
With suspicions that Sipho is in trouble in South Africa, Darryl remembers the government seizing his grandmother's house and David being wounded in the army.
Darryl recalls the effects his political activities had on his late father when he receives a call from his mother still living in his native South Africa.
Darryl debates whether to return to South Africa when his safety cannot be guaranteed.
While returning to South Africa for his father's funeral, Darryl remembers how he was smuggled out of the country.
Special Branch agents confront Darryl when he arrives in South Africa; David admits to his clandestine work for the government.
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