What does it mean to save yourself?
Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only
two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by
the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry
and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the
charges. But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her
life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be
spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.
The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not....