CRY FREEDOM

White South African Donald Woods, the editor of the "Daily Despatch", is forced to re-evaluate his liberalism after meeting and befriending black activist, Bantu Stephen Biko, a persuasive man of peace and a charismatic advocate of racial self-worth and self-determination. The two friends exist amid the institutionalised brutalization of an entire race of people by apartheid, the iniquitous systems that degrades those who enforce it more than those who endure it. On 12 September 1977, having sustained horrific injuries during interrogation by security police, Steve Biko died. That his name, his ideals and vision were not buried together with his broken body is due in very great measure to his friend, Donald Woods. This is their story.