![]() ![]() ![]() Gordon feels compelled to investigate the circumstances of his son’s death, and Ben agrees to continue to help him. ![]() Within days, however, Jonathan is dead, and the Special Branch denies ever having had him in custody. Ben agrees to help Gordon, and through witnesses they trace Jonathan to the custody of the Special Branch. Gordon, the black janitor at the school where Ben teaches, approaches Ben for help when his teenage son Jonathan disappears during the Soweto riots. “What can I do but what I have done? I cannot choose not to intervene: that would be a denial and a mockery not only of everything I believe in, but of the hope that compassion may survive among men.”īen is a white South African school teacher who believes in the essential fairness of his government, until circumstances and the moral choices he must make upend his life. ![]()
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