Embrace

For thirteen-year-old Karl De Man, the past is a mostly sunny childhood growing up on game reserves. The future holds the promise of freedom and success; as a student at an exclusive South African music academy, he can nurture his desire to excel. But the present forces Karl to deal with the more urgent concerns presented to a boy on the threshold of manhood - the nature of love and friendship, the arena of the body, the encroachments of politics and the dangers of betrayal...