This film is sweet and sad, enlightening and terrifying. Film maker Robyn Paterson overlays her idyllic childhood in the Zimbabwe of the 1980s with the reality of the Mugabe regime, as she travels back to the country she left with her family 14 years earlier in search of her best friend "Mercy." While the search for Mercy (get it?) drives the film, it's the modern social and political legacy of colonization and despotism that provide the real content of the story. This is a story of colonialism, racism, tribalism, and the unrelentingly, irrational fear-based tyranny of the oppressed that can result.
Thankfully, it is also a story of escape and resilience.
Thankfully, it is also a story of escape and resilience.
