The Grass Is Singing
“A marriage, a murder, a country without mercy”
4.7(6)19811h 45mEN
Directed by Michael Raeburn
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
marriage crisisafricarural areacolonialismrhodesia
