In 2000 some 300 000 children were serving as soldiers in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries around the world. Nearly 120,000 of these were engaged in various conflicts on the African continent. Ezra is a fictional tale inspired by the Sierra Leonean conflict, centered on one event: a drug fuelled, atrocious attack on a village by rebel soldiers. The jigsaw puzzle of what occurred that night is reconstructed through the testimonies of three witnesses: Ezra, an ex-combatant, his sister Onitcha, a mute, and Cynthia, Ezra's fellow ex-soldier. What is supposed to be reconciliation soon becomes a trial, as Onitcha chooses this as the arena to reveal a secret she has kept from her brother. Beyond politeness, judgment, diplomacy and politics Ezra is about the armed conflict in Africa. Somehow in, some way we are all responsible; some more than others. And if we condone it, it will somehow and in someway come around to us.
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