Thirty years ago a black teacher, Mister Bolofo, living in South Africa, was accused of communism. A quote by Karl Marx was found in one his notebooks. Communism being then considered a crime according to the laws in effect during the apartheid, Mister Bolofo had to go into exile with his whole family. When Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, Mister Bolofo was able to go back to his country. He gets back to his people, his rights and what his left of his past.