1995, 54 minutes
Salamao was a boy of nine when he was taken from his parents and trained as a killer by the Mozambican rebel force known Renamo. One of his assignments was to kill Lina Magaia, a prominent writer and activist who had picked up a gun and organized a local militia in her home town of Manhiça. At the end of the war, we join Lina as she searches for Salamao among the thousands of abandoned child soldiers who roam Mozambique’s cities and countryside — illiterate, fearful and clutching to the dark skills they learned from their rebel bosses. When we find him, his future looks bleak.