A gripping, heart-wrenching, and very different look at the Mugabe era. At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale-skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was well in the independent nation. Robyn greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. But Zimbabwe was not all that it seemed. Only a few miles away, Mercy’s Matabele tribespeople were being massacred by Mugabe’s special forces.
A generation later, Robyn begins a high-risk ground search across Zimbabwe – desperate to know what has happened to her friend. Along the way, she faces the dangers of filming in a country hostile to media, the shock of what is still going on behind closed doors, and the stark differences that she and Mercy have come to symbolize.
This documentary was produced by SPECIFIC FILMS and directed by ROBYN PATERSON. It was first released in 2012.
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