Runner-up for the People’s Choice Award at the 2010 festival, this remarkable true story speaks to the universal human urge to improve our lives by improving ourselves. When the government of Kenya announces it will offer free primary education for the first time, an eighty-four-year-old man, Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo), shows up on the doorstep of a rural school, ready for class. A member of the generation that liberated Kenya from British rule, Maruge fought for freedom and endured horrors at the hands of the colonizers (glimpsed in flashback); now, he wants only the education that he never had the time or opportunity to obtain.