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'Skin' is the astonishing true story of Sandra Laing, a black child born in 1950s South Africa to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry.
Rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, Sandra’s parents lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. At the age of 10, Sandra is sent to an all-white boarding school and confronts the full force of the country's legalized system of racism when she is reclassified by the government as black and expelled from the school.
Her parents fight for her to regain white privilege, taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court - and effecting a change in the law, so that she becomes officially white again. But by the time she is a teenager, Sandra knows she will never be accepted by the white community.
She falls in love with Petrus, a black vegetable seller, and they elope together. Furious and broken-hearted, Sandra's father disowns her. Now she must live her life, for the first time, as a black woman in South Africa.
Discovering a new culture and community brings confusion but also joy for Sandra while she still yearns for reunion with her family.
Release Date : 22 Jan 2010