In this closing chapter of a trilogy titled
Rooms of Learning; we experience an explicit interview with a former apartheid
soldier and his mother. Through the gripping tale of Darius’ military
conscription, the fatal journeys of his battalion through South West Africa and
the wars he witnessed as young man are exposed to the light of day.
The film is a sematic experiment at
creating a conversation without cut-away shots, filmed in a single room he
shares with his now ailing mother.
The maternal compassion of a mother’s
memory of her only son weaves the story of a tortured soul into a tale a kin a
psychiatric ward session.
And the guilt-ridden confession of a man
who felt brain-washed into a racist frenzy that made a brutal force of his
personality even after the war, is chronicled in this intimately honest telling
of truths one had hoped would never have to be told.
