Chainbreaker
1949, Viti Levu, Fiji.
Akbar Khan is a sugar farmer, working long hours in the sun, cutting the cane at harvest. He is also Indian-Fijian, meaning the Pacific Sugar Company controls him. The same is true of his fellow farmers - they thought indentured servitude had ended with their ancestors, but it seems not much has changed.
Ted Chambers, a white lawyer in Ba, finds most of his clients are Indian or native Fijian. The system set up by the colonial government is difficult for those who are not white to navigate. It seems intentional, and his fellow whites seem to like it that way. He finds he cannot just stand idly by and watch but take action.
Despite the vast difference between their places in the world, Akbar and Ted are close friends. Together, they form a union to enable the sugar farmers of the island receive what they are owed.
But hate lives in the heart of power. And murder is a means to silence any opposition.
Equality sometimes requires bloodshed.
Freedom comes at a cost.
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