A Girl with Closed Eyes

Troubles at home convince a twelve year old boy to run away with his imaginary friend.

The story of "22 she April" captures the nightmare that had dawned upon the victims of the fire breakout tragedy in Banani on the 28th of March. There's a unique story of all the lives who are trapped together in the same situation.

In a small desert village, the inhabitants are struggling with a drought. The efforts of the officials trying to find a solution fail, and villagers begin to leave. When they hold a Rain Prayer ceremony as a last solution, two orphans are asking a different prayer, praying that the rain not come. Every night, the stars in the sky blink down at the orphans through the hole in the roof, which has recently collapsed.

This is the story of a middle age housewife and a mother of two who due to circumstances beyond her control lost her entire family to the systems recklessness and lack of social responsibility and justice. She went through a tortuous period of near mental breakdown until she found a new strength to become a human right activist. In Nigeria extra judicial killing by the police is often treated lightly, many people are sent to jail for years on awaiting trial, this film reveals the conditions, circumstances and implications of these to the psych of the general population.

How far are you willing to go to save your child and what if that child doesn't want to be saved? A mother fights to save her child and she has to fight her child to do it.