Product DescriptionPoetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa?s finest poet. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike... more », young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, Valkyrie, Black Book) finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minister (Rutger Hauer, Batman Begins), the poet witnesses an unconscionable event that will alter the course of both her artistic and personal lives.« less