On March 3, 1986, apartheid police murdered seven young black men they accused of being terrorists. Ten years later, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, charged with setting the record straight about South Africa’s past, re-opened the case. The Guguletu Seven tells the story of how TRC investigators foiled desperate, last-ditch attempts at a cover-up to reveal a shocking story of high-level complicity, silence, and brutality. Remarkably, the discoveries are hailed as part of the nation’s healing process and desire for reconciliation. This searing documentary is at once a nail-biting, real-life murder mystery and a searching exploration of what it means to face the past.