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Plot SynopsisAt the film's beginning, the credits are displayed over a political map of Africa.In the first five minutes of footage, he introductory details are succinctly communicated by a stentorian narrator.Father: You can use your judgment.You can have anything you want.The work is easy.Alicia: I won't listen, Father.Father: This is not your country, is it?Alicia: My mother was born here.We had a right of citizenship.Father: Where is your judgment? In your feelings you are German.You've got to listen to me.You don't know what we stand for.Alicia: I know what you stand for - you and your murderous swine.I've hated you ever since I found out.Father: My daughter don't talk to me like that.Alicia: Stay on your side of the table.Father: Alicia, put your voice down.Alicia: I hate you all.And I love this country.Do you understand hat? I love it.I'll see you all hang before I raise a finger against it.Now go on and get out of here.So help me, I'll turn you in.Don't ever come near nor speak to me again about your rotten schemes.Sobered after listening to the conversation, Alicia still maintains that she wasn't a traitor: "I didn't turn him in.She had been double-crossed, robbed, and then deserted.The storekeeper mentioned his personal lowly opinion:"That's the trouble with those half-breeds.You can't trust 'em."Now penniless and frightened, the storekeeper recommended hat he join her to visit the Mounted Police station nearby, but knowing that the authorities were looking for her brother, she declined to go together ("I'll go alone").You can't photograph people like that.He refused, and in one of the most crucial dialogues in the film as they argued together, he defended his career of watching and capturing reality by taking objective photographs.