Based mostly on the experiences of Agu, a toddler preventing within the civil conflict of an unnamed, fictional West African nation. Follows Agu's journey as he is compelled to hitch a gaggle of troopers. Whereas he fears his commander and most of the males round him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the conflict raging by way of his nation, and he's at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
