Skin: The Movie

The story

This is the true story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born, through a genetic anomaly, to white Afrikaner parents in apartheid-torn South Africa.

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.



Starring


Sophie Okonedo

Sam Neil

Alice Krige

Ella Ramangwane

And Tony Kgoroge

For the movie official website click HERE

To watch another version of the movie trailer click HERE

If you want to learn more about the real Sandra Laing go HERE

To buy the book titled When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race on Amazon.com click HERE

I was able to watch the movie and let me tell you that it was such a tragic, sad, painful, enraging, and uplifting story. The Apartheid Era was a bad period and it's encouraging to think that so much time has passed.