This is the life story of a South African political detainee who went through 104 days of solitary confinement under Section 29 of the draconian apartheid-era Terrorism Act before being brought to trial with 13 orther political activists in what became known as the 'Yengeni Trial'.
Gertrude Fester begins her story with her childhood and young adult life in Cape Town until she becomes politically active in the city's progressive women's organisations before focusing on her aboveground and underground work for the liberation struggle that led to her detention in the second half of the 1980's.
It is in her depiction of her recollections of the daily experiences of solitary confinement and use of poetry written during this period that Gertrude takes the reader through the physically and emotinoally draining experience of solitary confinement in apartheid South Africa during the height of repression and resistance in the second half of the 1980's.
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