Empire Settings

"Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa under apartheid when he falls in love with the daughter of a black domestic servant. The illicit romance creates a crisis for everyone concerned; for his parents who are forced to choose between their professed values and their concern for his future, for the family's black workers, who see in Danny's actions nothing but indiscretion and trouble, and for Danny himself. Eventually his parents force an end to the romance, and not long afterwards Danny's pessimism about the future, and the poisonous political atmosphere in South Africa, drive him…