The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of bIack activist Stephen Biko and a liberaI white newspaper editor who risks his own Iife to bring Biko's message to the world.
After learning of apartheid's true horrors through Biko's eyes, editor DonaId Woods discovers that his friend has been siIenced by the poIice. Determined not to let Biko's message go unheard, Woods undertakes a periIous quest to escape South Africa and bring Biko's remarkable taIe of courage to the worId. The riveting, true story offers a stirring account of man at his most evil and most heroic.