All We have Left Unsaid

Danika believes she is able to cope with anything. Now, as she keeps a lonely vigil at her mother’s hospital bed, helplessly watching her life slip away, Danika is once again confronted by the dark secrets of her childhood in Cape Town in the eighties. A state of emergency had been declared – young soldiers carrying guns roamed the streets of the Cape Flats. No-one bothered to explain anything to bewildered, seven-year-old Danika, and for once her older sister, Lili, had no answers. Besides, their family had an emergency of their own . . .