Antony Thomas made films for the apartheid government’s Department of Information before emigrating to England in disgust at the policies he was helping to uphold. He had to sneak back to make this film, which was banned immediately upon its release. It tells the tale of Sondra Laing, who, by a strange genetic throwback, was born black to white Afrikaaner parents. Sondra grows up taunted and teased, is expelled from school and later elopes with a Zulu who worked in her parents’ shop. So begins a lifelong search for identity in a system where every aspect of her life is demarcated by the colour of her skin. Heartbreaking yet uplifting, this remarkable story is being planned as the feature film Skin, produced by Miramax.