The story is inspired by the assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party.

New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.

凯蒂是一名摄影师，在未婚夫德克斯的杂志社工作。某天德克斯派她前往非洲拍摄稀有猎鹰的照片。凯蒂到达非洲后的一次拍摄中，竟然惊奇地看到一名男子从百尺高的瀑布悬崖上往下跳……

A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.

讲述了南非的一个白人小男孩和两个黑人服务员的故事。哈里是个在南非长大的白人小孩，山姆和威利是他家餐厅的两个服务员，哈里从小就跟他们感情很好，他们对哈里来说亦师亦友。哈里的父亲是个爱酗酒的残疾人，他要从医院回家的消息使得哈里心烦意乱。。。父亲强迫他听种族歧视的笑话，他因为父亲感到羞愧难忍，最终还是山姆帮他恢复了自信
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck
between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his
caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher
Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast
Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly
humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of
something he can achieve

她寻找故园，她寻找爱情。她面对种族隔离和监管传媒的父亲，一直不断斗争。南非领袖尼尔森曼德拉曾在他第一次对南非议会的演说中朗诵她的诗作：《尼昂加死去的孩子》，并称赞她是南非最优秀的诗人。
奥斯卡女导演葆拉凡德奥斯特最新力作，描述南非女诗人英格丽琼蔻（Ingrid Jonker）在种族隔离时代对抗体制的传奇一生，也带出她与情人（尼恩康尼翰 饰）和父亲（鲁格豪尔 饰）之间的爱恨恩怨。英格丽琼寇是南非著名的女诗人，她的童年坎坷悲惨，却在写诗创作方面具有惊人的才华。由于丈夫任职南非旧政府，两人因对种族隔离看法分歧、导致婚姻破裂，并进而使抑郁的她最后选择了投海自尽，年仅32岁。
英格丽琼蔻身后留下了一个7岁女儿及诸多感人作品，其中最负盛名的即为诗集《黑蝶漫舞》。1994年，当南非总统曼德拉自监狱获释时，他在全世界瞩目的就职典礼上，就高声朗诵了深得他心的英格丽琼蔻所作的一首感人的诗，终使英格丽琼寇在死去30年后、扬名全球…