This is a story from the Rwanda of 1994

Life was difficult enough in Rwanda for a boy in the early 1990s, and Faustin’s father did not make it any easier with inexplicable rules and dark secrets.  

Teachers at school began to emphasize the division between the Tutsis and Hutus, a division that even made its way to the soccer field.

As the terrible events of the genocide unfold in 1994, Faustin discovers the secrets of the past and of his father's disability, the cruelty of his schoolteachers, the full horror of neighbor against neighbor, and how only his running and the courage of one friend can possibly save him. 

Newly edited.