Smouldering Charcoal

Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first - poor, working-class and ill-educated - is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance. The middle-class pair become victims of the same brutal violence that the poor and powerless suffer.

Cronica vietile a doua familii din Africa postcoloniala, prima - saraca, muncitoare si prost educata - este comparata cu tanara studenta constienta din punct de vedere politic si cu logodnicul ei jurnalist. Perechea din clasa de mijloc devine victimele aceleiasi violente brutale pe care o sufera cei saraci si neputinciosi.