Skin

Sandra Laing a distinctly mixed-race South African woman is born to white parents during the apartheid era. Despite her upbringing as a white girl Sandra is eventually classified as 'Coloured' by the government and stripped of the rights with which the rest of her family is privileged. And when she begins a love affair with a local vegetable dealer Sandra finds herself cut off from her past and living the hard life of a truly black woman in a society that seeks to ostracize her.