Another Country.
And other peoples’ heroes.
The scene is a middle-class dining-room in a western country in the late 1960s. A fresh-faced Child, flushed with excitement, just home from university, recounts their participation in a march against the Vietnam War.
“So what you mean” says Parent, “is that you want the Communist system set up here. You won’t be so happy when they take you away to a labour camp like they do in Vietnam.” the discussion rapidly degenerates into an exchange of insults and Child rushes out of the room.