BEVERLY HILLS, May 17, (THEWILL) – The movie, which was written by popular Nigerian filmmaker ‘Nodash’ Adejuyigbe, is the first Nollywood movie inspired by the Boko Haram insurgency.
Adejuyigbe in a statement to the media stated that the movie was done to help tell the Nigerian story concerning the Boko Haram issue better.
“We carefully crafted this film for people like you. Really share your opinion about the topics addressed in the film. You just might say something that the world needs to hear. We are listening.”
The movie talks about how a young orphan, Amir, who was raised by an extremist group and then runs away on the eve of a suicide mission with his bomb vest, to execute his own mission.
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On his way, he met Nkem, a prostitute, who was escaping a mob for a crime committed while trying to get money to save her dying brother.
The duo journeyed together and when they got to the underbelly of the city in search of their identities, peace of mind and sanity and also money, they discovered that there is too much rot in the African society with a huge conspiracy of silence in the presence of evil.
The film stars Jemima Osunde, Charles Etubiebi Oke, Kehinde Fasuyi, Jude Chukwuka and Jamal Ibrahim.
THEWILL reports that the movie bagged 12 nominations at the 2019 Africa Movie Academy Award.
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