Never have the destinies of a nation and of a family been so dramatically entwined. In the decades after World War II, South Africa struggles againts the tribal violence at its heart-between Englishman and Afrikaaner, white and black-that threatens, finally and irreparably, to tear it apart.

It is a conflict most vividly played out in the savage rivalry between two men. Ruggedly sensual Shasa Courtney and coldly upright Manfred De La Rey- half-brothers, yet as different as British and Boer can be-share but one common trait: burning, unrelenting ambition and hunger for power, in a world battered by the ever-mounting revolutionary tides of black rage that threaten to engulf them.