The story of six South African health pioneers who transformed community medicine in North Carolina, the US, and beyond. Escaping apartheid, they brought lessons learned in rural KwaZulu-Natal to an American South being reshaped by the Civil Rights Movement.

Director Biography - Karin Shapiro

I am a social historian and professor in the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University. I specialize in the areas of the American South and South Africa. I have made three short documentaries, but this is my first full length film.