A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Alan Howard
Inspector Drummond
Karanja
Mary Crawford
Mr Crawford
African Inspector
Doctor Hughes
Waweru
Colonel Bridgeman
Settler
Mrs Crawford
Headman
Thakla
Chege
Mundati
Kimani
Joshua