Secrets, deception and lies. Portia and Precious, one white girl and the other black, grow up together during the apartheid era in South Africa but are driven apart by racist attitudes and the draconian regime, each suffering the consequences of this and their own actions.
Precious flees to Botswana to escape capture and lives there for eighteen years until South Africa becomes truly democratic, when she is free to re-enter the country.
But when she and Portia meet up again, a deeply buried family secret rises up to explode everything they thought about themselves and their relationship.
Secrets, deception and lies. Portia and Precious, one white girl and the other black, grow up together during the apartheid era in South Africa but are driven apart by racist attitudes and the draconian regime, each suffering the consequences of this and their own actions.
Precious flees to Botswana to escape capture and lives there for eighteen years until South Africa becomes truly democratic, when she is free to re-enter the country.
But when she and Portia meet up again, a deeply buried family secret rises up to explode everything they thought about themselves and their relationship.