It was revealing how Lilly is disrespected and viewed with jealousy by most of the darker skinned women. Just because she has a lighter tone skin, they assumed she was given more by Allah.

Injustice is blamed for the poverty instead of the socialist policies.

Anger that a man chose a woman with different skin colour.

Lilly did a great job trying to Ethiopian and just a person, but people got in the way with their leftist ideals.

Lovers separated by civil war, a woman in the UK try to find the man who may still be in Ethiopia.

It's not really suitable for a film. Even I know this even I haven't read the book. After a while, your brain will turn to irony mode, as you become aware that the story is full of it, as it is the theme.

It has becoming common plot nowadays, although the background story is a smart one.

So? A white girl played the lead. Get over it everybody. How can it be that absolute dross gets thrown at us in spades and yet this gem practically went by unnoticed? I discovered this film by accident, and so glad I did. And then I notice nine reviews. Nine! And most of them negative. A tragedy.

I'm not Ethiopian so I can't say for sure how accurate this was, but a great story about something we hear little about. My Amharic is rusty too but Dakota seemed to be doing a bang up job. Well done to her. I would read the book it was based on.