Movie Description:
South Africa, 1985. While thecountry is under siege, sanctions are biting. Mandela`s imprisonment is an international cause celebre, and the ANCguerrilla terrorist attacks are escalating. Every day the country is more ungovernable as it plunges towards the apocalypse of a race war. In sanermoments everyone knows the vile apartheid is doomed butwill the transition to democracy be peaceful or bloody?Working for P.W. Botha as asomewhat machiavellian head of intelligence, Dr. Neil Barnard opens furtive talks with imprisoned Nelson Mandela. But lesser known are the secrettalks that take place in the unlikely setting of a rural English manor house, arranged by a British businessman and sponsored by a mining company. Bothsides have everything to win orto lose,including their own lives. The stakes are immense, the secrecy imperative. Botha learns of the UK talks and if thedemise of apartheid is inevitable he intends to control the endgame by employing the tactics of divide and rule. Against all the odds, throughvolatile discussion, intrigue and breakthroughs, the unimaginable is achieved- a precious arena of frail trust between the two warring parties.
