Tim Jenkin en Stephen Lee zijn blanke Zuid-Afrikanen en activisten die tegen de apartheid strijden. Ze worden gevangengenomen omdat ze namens het Afrikaans Nationaal Congres werken en naar de beruchte en zwaarbeveiligde gevangenis van Pretoria gebracht. Daar komen ze in contact met de activist Denis Goldberg en plannen ze een ontsnapping.

Een drama over terrorisme in het Zuid-Afrika van de Apartheid, rond een politieagent en een jongeman die solo aanslagen pleegt tegen het regime.

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family and what he believes is his duty.

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime…

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.