The Grass Is Singing

Plot Summary

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.

Top Cast

Karen Black Mary Turner

John Thaw Dick Turner

John Kani Moses

Patrick Mynhardt Charlie Muller

John Moulder-Brown Tony Marston