A child soldier armed with weapons of death and willing to use them at the slightest provocation serves as the focal point for this drama highlighting the need for greater humanity in a country ravaged by absurd wars. Johnny is a fifteen year old soldier with a small commando unit and together this team robs pillages and kills everyone and everything in their path. Laokole is a sixteen year old girl who spirits her disabled father around on a ramshackle wheelbarrow and looks after her eight year old brother Fofo while dreaming of ways to leave the city and build a... better future. As Johnny advances and Laokole falls back miniature warlords leading diminutive armies kill each other over such trivialities as misplaced words or television sets. What will it take to ensure that no more childhoods are cut tragically short? [show more]
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Jean-Stephane Sauvaire directs this war drama set in an unnamed war-ravaged African country. The film follows a commando of African child soldiers who have been trained to plunder and murder civilians. Christopher Minie plays one of the child soldiers, 15-year-old Johnny, who - armed to the hilt with an AK47 - is taken over by his violent fantasies of becoming the ultimate 'mad dog'. Daisy Victoria Vandy plays 16-year-old Laokole, who must put her studies aside as she tries desperately to flee the militia-occupied city where she lives with her eight-year-old brother and disabled father.
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