
The White King
The hardest thing to break is the human spirit.
DramaScience Fictionbased on novel or bookkillingdystopiadictatorshipmurderfamilywoman directormilitary prisonersmurderedwarkill
A dark, intimate family drama set in a totalitarian state where a boy's determination to reunite with his imprisoned father becomes an act of spiritual resistance against systemic cruelty.
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
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