Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Rhodesia, British colonial territory, now Zimbabwe. At the end of the 1970s, young Bobo grows up on her family’s large farm. Almost anything is possible for the bright white girl: she rides motorcycles, shoots at cans, observes the locals performing their traditional rituals. But the country she lives in is facing change. As rebels increasingly oppose European settler domination, Bobo’s father is forced to leave the farm under the protection of uniformed guards. The familiar world of her family, which bears a tragic past in addition to all the turmoil, seems to be gradually disintegrating. Bobo is torn between two poles. She sees her mother desperately clinging to the farm and her former land, but she also sees Sarah and Jacob, her servants, and other locals fighting for their independence. Amidst political and social upheaval, the young girl realises that there are more perspectives on history than the one she has grown up with.