
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play David Lurie (John Malkovich) a twice-divorced professor in post-apartheid South Africa finds his life falling apart When he seduces one of his students & does nothing to protect himself from the consequences he is dismissed from his teaching position & goes to live with his lesbian daughter Lucy who shares a farm in the Eastern Cape with trusted black worker Petrus For a time the rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life But the balance of power in the country is shifting In the aftermath of a vicious attack by three black youths he is forced to come to terms with the changes in society as well as his disgrace