Opsummering af 'Cry Freedom' om Donald Woods og Steve Biko

The story is set in November 1975 in the south-east of South Africa in the city East London. In this city Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch. One morning he hears about a police raid in the black township Crossroads, which is in Cape Town in the south-west of South Africa. Along with this news he also receives photos of the raid and he decides to print them, although the government doesn´t allow to print such photos. Woods doesn´t believe in the demands of the black people but he is a trained lawyer and he doesn´t accept police brutality against black people. So he also writes an editorial about a black, young man who is shown on a picture whose name is given: Biko. Some days later Woods meets Stephan Biko in an old church which he wants to turn into a centre for black people. He listens to Bikos opinion and Biko also shows Woods a clinic for black people. In the clinic Doctor Mamphela Ramphele is working. She is a black young woman who told Woods the address of Biko. Biko invites Woods to come and see how black people in South Africa live. They go to the slums of the blacks in an old black taxi which is only for black people.