Instead of having a plot, this book analyzes Apartheid‘s racist policy, personified into one white man, Mehring. He is South Africa in miniature: entitled and privileged and ignorant of everything around him. He doesn‘t understand the black laborers who run his farm and underestimates the foreman who hides his intellect whenever the boss is around. While Mehring‘s family has fled the country, he represents the inevitable collapse of Apartheid.