Beschrijving

The young and beautiful Miss Sarah Smalley leaves England to accompany her father, a clergyman, on a private and secret mission to Basutoland. It is the year 1879, and although the once-mighty Zulu have finally been vanquished, she is caught up in the uncertainty of another impending frontier war. The violence she experiences, and the darkest secrets unearthed, destroy her moral certitude and the sentimentality of her ‘imperial’ values. Driven to the edge of insanity, she seeks redemption for her flawed judgement and bigotry by sacrificing all she once held morally inviolable. Inevitably, this comes at a terrible price.