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It's the last day of summer in 1972 in apartheid-era South Africa. Into the heat of a botanical garden strolls 16-year-old Elizabeth, a fiercely independent Caucasian woman who disregards the political constraints of her world. She's in love with Lucas, a 20-year-old African man, who follows her cautiously into the garden for their secret rendezvous but they are not alone, and with one touch, their dreams are gone forever.
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Apartheid was a policy that governed relations between South Africa's white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Even though the laws that laid the foundation for apartheid in South Africa were repealed by the early 1990s, the negative social and economic repercussions of this discriminatory policy continued to reverberate into the 21st century.
What lives? If we can't be together, what life is that?
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