Dilemma

The story begins when Toby Ivan Jackson a young English businessman arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm He knows little about apartheid and so at first sees no contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite upperclass white woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid But as Toby makes friends with one of the black South Africans Zaku Mokae and as he registers both the subtle and more obvious deepseated racial prejudices of the minority white population some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn That is brought to a head when tragedy strikes