DISGRACE takes place in modern day South Africa. David Lurie, a twice divorced professor at a Cape Town technical university, is fired from his job for a passionate but brief affair with a student who is ambivalent about his embraces. This "disgrace" causes him to retreat to his daughter Lucy′s isolated farm in the east. Although they rarely see eye to eye, the tentative emotional truce between errant father and daughter soon gives way to a more peaceful rural life...until it is ripped apart by a traumatic and violent attack which forces them both to re-evaluate their believes.
