Poppie Nongena

Poppie Nongena tells the true story of a South African Xhosa mother, whose whose life revolves around her family and finding stability in a period of immense upheaval in South Africa when African women were forced – by arrests, fines and forced removal – to leave their homes and resettle in remote areas designated as black homelands. Accommodation is a perpetual struggle; Poppie finds 'live-in' jobs, seeing her children briefly at weekends. When her husband, Stone, becomes too ill to maintain his contract work, Poppie starts her desperate struggle with the authorities for permission to stay in her own country, where she is deemed by the law to be an "illegal" resident. (Cinemax)