Discusses Nelson Mandela's long fight against apartheid in South Africa, his twenty-seven years as a political prisoner, his release from prison in 1990, and his subsequent leadership role in the country.
When interrogation experts arrive, the Magistrate is jolted into sympathy for their victims and an act of rebellion gets him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.
Alan Sheriff, a writer living in a country ruled by a tyrannical dictator is ordered to ghost write an autobiographical novel about the tyrant that will undermine support for sanctions in the West or else he and his family will suffer dire consequences.