In South Africa, Donald Woods works as a white editor of the Daily Dispatch. One day, after writing one article about Stephen Biko, who is a black leader, he's told to meet Biko by one black woman. Then after meeting him, Woods comes to act with him and gets involved in the campaign against the South African Government (called “the System” in this novel). As this campaign spreads, systems attack toward it gets stronger and stronger so that finally some black including Biko are killed. And it attacks not only black people who participate in the campaign but also Woods and his family though they are white. This is why they decide to defect from the South Africa in order to disclose apartheid and its cruelty to the world. Then, though the System interferes with their plan many people help them to escape so many times that finally they accomplish the defection and fly toward Botswana.

“People sing the song together at Biko's federal.” (From p.65 to p.70)

I have read some book about discrimination for example, one book whose title is “Hakai”(it means, “braking a commandment” in English) written by Toson Simazaki. In this novel, the author describes one lower status “Eta” in Japan in detail. If you have a chance to touch it, please read it.