Skin

Sandra Laing was an anomaly that made apartheid South Africa very uncomfortable in the late 60s. Why? Well, she looked coloured, yet her parents were both white.

There was no funny fiddling going on either. They were proven to be her biological creators. Sandra’s father even made his way to the Supreme Court to have his daughter classified white, but this didn’t make her feel any less of a freak, as one can only imagine. In response she acted out, fell in love with a black man and had to face the consequences of being disowned by her father.

Sophie Okonedo portrays Sandra’s painful identity crisis poignantly, and Sam Neill impresses as her father. Well worth watching.

Rating: 4 outta 5.