It begins with disturbing, real video footage of the carnage that occurred after the elections, but the film opts instead to tell the quiet story of one woman's struggle to move on from the past. Anne (Susan Wanjiru), a nurse and mother who lives with her family on an isolated farm called 'The Haven', awakens from a coma to find that her once idyllic life will never be the same. A victim of physical and sexual violence at the hands of a gang of thugs during the post-election violence, we learn that her husband is dead at the hands of the thugs, her son in a coma, and her picturesque farm has been burned to ashes.
Sinking in medical debt, haunted by eerie glimpses of her dead husband, and still struggling to deal with the memories of that horrible night, Anne resolves to renovate her farm despite the protests of friends and family, and regain at least a piece of the life she once knew. It's a simple but elegant metaphor that works: as Anne rebuilds her isolated farm, piece by piece, she slowly rebuilds herself. Running parallel to the story of her reedifiction is that of Joseph (Walter Lagat) – a young, quiet man who took part in Anne's rape and her husband's death, through chance, or more rightly fate, gets a job on construction of her home and uses the opportunity to help her rebuild as his own penance for past deeds.
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