The story takes place in South Africa in 1968, where the strict and cruel apartheid system caused the 25 million black people living there to face a tragic fate. In order to safeguard racial rights, some black people rose up to resist, but the outcome waiting for them was either deportation or being imprisoned in Robben Island Prison. James (Joseph Fiennes) was born into such a bad situation. Fortunately, he is an out-and-out white man. Adults have instilled the absurd concept that "blacks are inferior" to James since he was a child. As an adult, James, who has been completely brainwashed, becomes a guard at Robin Island Prison, and the prisoner he oversees is the South African democracy fighter Mandela (Dennis Haysbert). As time went by, James, who got to know more and more black people, began to question what he was doing - could white people really imprison and humiliate their compatriots as a matter of course?
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