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In 1963, South Africa, when political tensions are rife and the suppression of anti-apartheid resistance is at its most brutal, Eleanor, an unassuming, young single mother is arrested at Griggs Bookstore where she works in Durban and taken for questioning.
She finds herself detained under the 90-day detention act and brutally interrogated as the police are on the hunt for her lover, the notorious “terrorist” Red Ronnie Kasrils. Ronnie is wanted for his involvement in a string of sabotage bombings across the country in the name of the resistance.
But what the police don't know about Eleanor is that she is a secret agent for the Underground ANC who is committed to protecting her comrades. She makes the daring decision to fake a nervous breakdown in order to be transferred to a psychiatric institution. From there, she begins to plot her escape.