講述了南非的一個白人小男孩和兩個黑人服務員的故事。哈里是個在南非長大的白人小孩，山姆和威利是他家餐廳的兩個服務員，哈里從小就跟他們感情很好，他們對哈里來說亦師亦友。哈里的父親是個愛酗酒的殘疾人，他要從醫(yī)院回家的消息使得哈里心煩意亂。。。父親強迫他聽種族歧視的笑話，他因為父親感到羞愧難忍，最終還是山姆幫他恢復了自信
　　This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck
　　between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his
　　caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher
　　Hally is required to laugh at his father's racist jokes, by contrast
　　Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly
　　humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of
　　something he can achieve