In the 1960s, a city girl moves to her husband's failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. As she grows discontented and loses her grip on sanity, she begins an affair with one of their black servants culminating in tragedy.
In the 1960s, an American woman relocates from the big city to Southern Rhodesia with her future husband whose farm is failing, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life on the hardscrabble farm eventually takes its toll on her psyche and she finds herself involved sexually with one of their black servants. Based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing.—Fryingham / edited by Hans Delbruck