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In his book, "Soweto, My Love: A Testimony to Black Life in South Africa" Molapantene Collins Ramusi talks about the love for his homeland and one day hoping to see it free. Ramusi also talks about going to the 1st grade when he was 17. Ramusi became a lawyer to defend the defenseless. He was a warrior in the courts, defending widows who were told they were breaking the law by living in an apartment that belonged to their dead husbands.
Physician Anne Sidon, psychiatrist Susan Fisher, and attorney Sandra Nye discuss womens' changing roles in society and its connection with mental health problems and solutions. The group discusses domestic violence, and notes how the normalization of divorce affects the mental health of women and the parental roles between father and mother. Studs plays “She Sits on the Table” - Tom Paxton (1980).