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film profile], a drama about the totalitarian regime of the Khmer Rouge. With this new venture, the producers are revisiting the themes of war and civil violence, but this time, they will be applied to a completely different territory and several countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
Birahima, a ten-year-old Guinean orphan, falls under the influence of Yacouba, a boy who is fascinated by the world of the child soldiers of the NPFL (National Patriotic Front of Liberia), linked to rebel
Charles Taylor, a hero of the civil war that the region will be engrossed in for eight long years. Under the auspices of Colonel Papa Le Bon, the preteen will learn all about this life of garrisons, propaganda, religious ceremonies, drugs and weapons handling, while befriending other child soldiers. Leaping from one misadventure to the next, Birahima flits between different militias and takes part in acts of violence.