![]() ![]() They literally have to carve an existence out of nothing. ![]() The central storyline concerns the Grant family's attempts at building a coffee plantation in the middle of nowhere. The young girl holds together this narrative magnificently. She stands in awe of the Witch doctors, appreciates the beauty of the animals around her and yet has to come to terms with the ruthlessness of the wild (and human) life in the area. In fact, the film manages to convey the wonder, beauty and ugliness of an Africa that would have been experienced by just such a young girl. Elspeth Huxley, wrote a book detailing these childhood memories. What gives these characters even more flesh is that they are all based on real people. ![]() ![]() For disparate they truly are, socially and geographically, we have the settlers who are making a last gasp to save themselves financially, there is the Northern bank clerk who has moved here for his health, there is the Boer hunter and a couple who have eloped to escape social embarrassment at home. There is no high drama, cunning plot or despicable villains, this mini-series is a very subtle representation of what life must have been like for the disparate settlers who decided to try and make their fortune in this part of the world. This is a delightful mini series dramatising the life of settlers in Africa in the period immediately before The Great War. ![]()
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