Disgrace

A scathing portrayal of a nation's reckoning, "Disgrace" (2008) follows David Lurie, a South African university professor whose downfall serves as a microcosm for a post-apartheid era grappling with identity, power, and morality. After an affair with a student costs him his job, Lurie relocates to the Eastern Cape, where he becomes embroiled in the complexities of a new South Africa struggling to come to terms with its troubled past.