Set in the mid 1980s, but told in a series of flashbacks, this is the story of a young white South African woman with a coloured husband who is an ANC activist. Living in exile in Lesotho, they are killed by hooded gunmen one night. Rose's parents arrive in a fury of grief and guilt to be at her funeral. This tale of forbidden love and fatal attraction was inspired by a real life event, the murder of Jackie Quin and Leon Meyer in Lesotho in 1985. They had tried to burst through the barricades which so artificially divided the peoples of South Africa. ( )