Richard September

İnsanın ilk ataları dünyayı fethetmek, bilinmeyeni keşfetmek ve her ortama uyum sağlamak için yola çıktılar. Ve bir gün, onları yenilmez kılan bir keşif olan ateşi fethettiler. Barınaklar inşa ettiler. Çevrelerini dönüştürdüler. Ancak bu bile onların daha fazlasına olan susuzluğunu dindirmedi. Doğanın sırlarını çözmeyi arzuladılar. Açıklanamayanı açıklamak için hikayeler icat ettiler. Şimdi, onlar İnsan oldular. İşte televizyon tarihindeki bu destan, kökenlerimizin öyküsü, tek bir ailenin hikâyesi aracılığıyla anlatılıyor. En son bilimsel keşiflerin ışık tuttuğu heyecan verici destansı bir yolculuk.

On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.

Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.