Perhaps the most controversial film ever made in Africa, Flame is the story of two women whose involvement in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle leads to very different outcomes. Florence, impulsive and brave, and Nyasha, scholarly and cautious, run away from their village to join the liberation forces in 1975. The film accurately reconstructs conditions in the rebel camps: the extreme hardship and constant danger, but also the unprecedented opportunities offered women for education and leadership. Sinclair's moving tribute to women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle aroused the ire of war veterans and the military because it revealed that officers sometimes used female recruits as "comfort women." But Flame's real crime may have been that it exposed not just past abuses but continuing divisions within Zimbabwean society. Many of the groups that fought hardest during the freedom struggle, for example, women and peasants, have been left behind in the postrevolutionary period; for them the revolution is still not completed.