2001 · Fiction, Political Fiction, DramaBitter Fruit
In post-apartheid South Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Commission liaison Silas Ali unexpectedly crosses paths with François du Boise, the former police lieutenant who brutally assaulted his wife Lydia twenty years earlier. The encounter unleashes long-buried trauma that ripples through their home, testing the couple's fragile marriage while their teenage son Mikey grapples with the devastating secrets of his parentage and identity against the backdrop of a nation struggling to reckon with its painful history.
