OscarÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine ignite the screen as two very differentmen suddenly bound togetherand running for their livesin this 'suspenseful [and] politically pertinent (Los Angeles Times) chase thriller set in South Africa's powder keg of racial strife. When anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Poitier) is freed from prison, he quickly runs into trouble with the police. British engineer Keogh (Caine) helps Twala elude a sadistic government official (Nicol Williamson), but as both men, now fugitives, race 900 miles to cross the border to safety, they are drawn into a conspiracy much bigger and deadlier than they realize.