David Locke é um jornalista em crise tentando finalizar um documentário sobre a guerra civil no Chade. Para escapar da situação em que se encontra, ele acaba assumindo a identidade de um homem que morreu. Mas a nova vida acaba tomando um rumo inesperado quando Locke descobre que esse homem que ele finge ser era um traficante de armas envolvido em negócios com os combatentes rebeldes do Chade.

Um sargento da África do Sul vive todo o conflito gerado pelo apartheid em plenos anos 80, ao mesmo tempo em que deve conviver com o crescimento de seu filho numa nação tremendamente injusta. O filme tem um elenco de primeira com Danny Glover (Máquina Mortífera) no papel principal.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.