The filmmaker's father, a black South African teacher, returns to South Africa in 1994 after Nelson Mandela was elected President, and discovers that his family's land had been confiscated and its house destroyed. Interwoven with the teacher's reminiscences are still photographs, overlapping voices, a stirring excerpt from a speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a voice-over radio play in which a woman waits with her children for her husband to return for dinner hoping he will bring them some meat.
