Killing Heat
Killing Heat (released in Sweden as Gräset sjunger) is a 1981 film based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing.The film takes place in apartheid-era South Africa in the 1960s (unlike the novel which was set in Southern Rhodesia).Mary leaves the comfortable familiarity of her urban life and goes to live on Dick's struggling farm.Mary runs away by herself (to the town of Livingstone, crossing the bridge at Victoria Falls by train—which takes her into what was pre-1964 Northern Rhodesia), only to find that she cannot get her old job back, and has nowhere to take permanent refuge and no means of financial support.Mary slowly becomes insane and breaks the Rhodesian taboo of inter-racial over-familiarity with the African houseboy, Moses.