On her Journey Stacey meets kids who have been soldiers and befriends one boy who was kidnapped when he was just 12 years old. He tells her how he was forced to kill people and was even made to drink their blood to give him magic powers. Accompanying a local charity she travels to a frontline Congolese National Army camp where she helps rescues two teenage boy soldiers who reveal they have been deep in the forest, since they were 9 and 10 years old. Stacey takes one boy home to be reunited with his family who he hasn’t seen for more than three years. He was taken away by the militias, forced to fight and kill and now neither Stacey nor the boy know how his family and the villagers will react to his return
Stacey witnesses for herself the terrifying complexities of war where young kids have been manipulated to commit atrocities but who still have to return to living a normal life again.
