The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough`s sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko`s message to the world.After learning of apartheid`s true horrors through Biko`s eyes editor Donald Woods discovers that his friend has been silenced by the police. Determined not to let Biko`s message go unheard Woods undertakes a perilous quest to escape South Africa and bring Biko`s remarkable tale of courage to the world. The riveting true story offers a stirring account of man at his most evil and most heroic.