The Man Who Stole My Mothers Face: A Search for Justice
What began as a search for justice became a revelation about the process of healing. Hope Road is a quiet jacaranda-lined street in a white middle-class suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa. Two days before Christmas in 1988, a 59-year-old woman is sexually assaulted and savagely beaten in her home by a young white teenager. Fourteen years on, the woman has still not recovered from this assault.