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Boromundi, a small African state, ravaged by civil war…

Rebecca Wise and Annabel Mbanga, two young women on an outing, are dragged from their minibus into the roadside mud, raped, and horribly mutilated.

Devastated by the death of the girl he loves but unaware of the crime behind it, Armstrong McKay flies out to bring Rebecca’s body home. Amid the dancing, drink and catharsis of Rebecca’s wake, he meets Temba Mbanga, Annabel’s husband, who reveals the brutal truth.

Faced with a weak government and the severed stump of the Boromundian legal system, the two men wrestle with a stark choice: turn aside as the authorities wash their hands of murder, or mete out justice themselves.

In the darkness of the early morning rain, surrounded by the grating cry of Kisasi the Justice Bird, they make their decision: to track down the murderers one by one – and execute them.

Only then will the Justice Bird be silent…