Setting and Context

Set in South Africa at the height of the apartheid regime, when the government started a policy of ethnic cleansing, forcibly removing people from their homes and moving them to so-called ''homelands''.

Main Characters and Conflict

Schoolchildren Naledi and Tiro are caught up in the protests and resistance as they and their grandmother are threatened with removal from their village.

Themes and Resolution

Protestors are arrested and beaten, but still people fight on. Freedom lies at the end of a long road.