Janet Suzman

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.