The film takes place in South Africa 1968, where the black people were under
apartheid. The main character is James Gregory, is a prison guard, and with his
family they move to an island called Robbon Island. On that island his job is to take
care of the cool guys from the ANC including Nelson Mandela. In his childhood he
grew up on a farm in Transkei, and did not have any brothers to play with, so he had
to play with the black children. Therefore he learned the language Xhosa. With those
skills he was the perfect man to do that job in the high security area. In the start
he saw the black people as terrorists. But later he listened to Mandela and his opinions.
Winnie Mandela, “Mother of Africa”, had a short visit to Nelson Mandela. Normally they have 30 minutes to talk together in English about family and privacy but they started talking
Xhosa and about politics, so they where stopped by James. Winnie Mandela
was arrested, when she came to the mainland.
Family Gregory is on a little weekend at the mainland visiting their grandparents.
While their waiting in front of a shop, the police makes a passport control with
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