Silvia Broome is a U.N. translator who was born in America, educated in Europe, but raised by her
white parent
farmers in a fictitious south African country called Matobo, ruled by Dr. Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), a liberator who became a tyrant when in power and in his old
age is referred to by his followers as The Teacher.
With Mudbound I had six voices to choose from; when I got tired of being an educated middle -
aged white mother of two, I could become a young black soldier or an illiterate
farmer or a charmer with a drinking problem.