A drama based on the adventures of Agu, a young child soldier fighting in an African country's civil war. Follows the journey of a boy, Agu, who is forced to combine a group of troops in a nation that is fictional. While Agu worries his commander and a number of the men around himhis Spartan youth has been cruelly shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of warfare and doesn't shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult movie of Agu as a kid soldier.