The Heroes

During the brutal Idi Amin regime in Uganda, Africa, four-year-old Diana is awakened in the middle of the night to discover her father has been murdered. Shipped off to relatives, she is forced into indentured servitude and spends countless nights huddled outside in the dark where she is banished as punishment any time she crosses her aunt. On one such night, her mother is awakened by a dream in which she’s told to go rescue her little girl. Diana returns home to thrive under her mother’s care and flourish in school until one day when her mother’s business partner runs away with their savings. Diana and her siblings are thrust back into poverty, and young Diana takes solace in the arms of a boy who then leaves her as one of thousands of young girls across Africa — a teenage mother, pregnant at fifteen years old.