00:13Empty room block B room 12 Marembi villas, Mokibi sitting on floor hands on head, trauma, cobwebs, silence.
00:21Only breathing.
00:24Phone buzzes Aisha again.
00:26He doesn't answer.
00:28He stares at wall.
00:30Marembi villas block B room 12 night, Mokibi packing small backpack, clothes on bed, Marembi villas key on table.
00:38He cannot stay in Marembi.
00:41Marembi means peace, but peace left.
00:44His room still smells of Kampala dust and fear.
00:48He packs like man leaving crime, not home.
00:51Because it is crime.
00:54Watching and not stopping.
00:56Mokibi whisper to self, I must go Russia.
01:00Father will know what to do.
01:02Grace.
01:04Erin 8 week, maybe there I can breathe.
01:07Mameyaba slash gateway bus park Kampala night chaos.
01:10Buses to Mbarara.
01:12Kabali, loud touts.
01:14Mokibi boarding gateway bus 002 Kampala to Mbarara.
01:17Inside gateway bus night, rain on window, Kampala lights fading, Mokibi window seat, tears, other passengers sleeping.
01:27Four hours.
01:29Kampala to Mbarara is not distance, it's time travel.
01:33From boda boda, noise, shouting witty, to hills, cows, silence.
01:39Rain on window light conscience.
01:42Every drop says SSI ends, not me, the boy said.
01:46He said not me.
01:48And Mokibi heard but didn't fight enough.
01:51I was born in Russia.
01:53Father had 10 cows.
01:56I left for Kampala because cows not enough.
01:59I became boda.
02:01I became father four times with four mothers.
02:05Grace patient, Aisha loud, Sharon corporate, Tina fierce.
02:09All think I'm strong.
02:12Today I was weak.
02:14Chairman held my shoulder.
02:16I let him.
02:18I should have fallen on boy to protect him.
02:21Like father cow protecting cat.
02:23But I ran.
02:25Now I'm on bus to father.
02:27What will I tell him?
02:29That his son watched beating and ran?
02:32Mbarara taxi parked on mist.
02:35Ankle cattle and far background.
02:37Mokibi stepping off bus exhausted the backpack.
02:40Mbarara.
02:41Heart of ankle.
02:43Where his language running cold is not second language, but first.
02:48Where people know his clan.
02:50Where boda not called boda but boda boda sane but slower.
02:55Taxi driver, rusher.
02:575k, we waiting one more.
03:00Mokibi, let's go.
03:02I'm home.
03:04Russia Kurohara Hills, dirt marm road, ankle longhorned cattle grazing, Mokibi walking with
03:10backpack towards home, morning light golden.
03:13Russia, Kurohara district.
03:16Wikipedia says small town.
03:18For Mokibi, it's whole world.
03:21Hills that never shout.
03:24Cows that never accuse.
03:26Here, a man is judged by how he treats cows, not how fast he shouts Mwibi.
03:32Old father ankle Mzi sitting on bench outside hut, thatch, gourds hanging, Mokibi kneeling greeting
03:38with hands together pleading, cows behind crawl.
03:42Mokibi kneeling, Tata, a gandhi?
03:45Father, how are you?
03:47Father Mzi, Mokibi?
03:49My son?
03:51You came without telling.
03:53What brings you?
03:55Your face has heavy.
03:57Mokibi, Tata, I saw bad thing in Kampala.
04:01Bwaze.
04:03Crowd beat boy.
04:04They said thief.
04:06I tried stop, but I failed.
04:09I ran.
04:11I feel okatoma inside.
04:13Beating inside.
04:15Father, in ankle, we say cow that watches calf eaten by hyena and does nothing is not cow.
04:22Is hyena also?
04:24You watched.
04:26So now what will you do?
04:28Run forever, or return and speak truth.
04:32Grace, first wife, and child Aaron ate we seven years old, rusher compound, seeing Mokibi,
04:38Grace calm but reading his face, child running.
04:41Aaron ate we, daddy.
04:43Daddy, you came.
04:45You brought books.
04:47Mokibi hugging, guilt, not today my son.
04:51Next time.
04:52Daddy had bad day.
04:55Grace soft, running cool, Mokibi, you not ok.
04:59Your eyes.
05:01What happened Kampala?
05:03Mokibi, later I tell.
05:06Let me first sit with father.
05:08Grace, food ready.
05:10You eat, then tell.
05:13Under big mango tree rusher, elders gathering, Mokibi telling story of boys beating, father listening.
05:20In rusher, justice is not fast shouting.
05:23It's sitting under mango tree.
05:26Slow talking.
05:28Elders listen whole story before judging.
05:31Elder 1, in Kampala, life cheap like airtime.
05:35Elder 2, boy maybe stole, maybe not.
05:38But beating never brings foam back.
05:42Only brings blood.
05:44Mokibi alone under mango tree rusher night, fireflies, stars milky way, mangoes hanging, looking at sky, guilt but small peace.
05:53This is how episode 001 ends.
05:57Not in Kampala where beating happened.
05:59In russher where beating is remembered.
06:03Under mango tree his father planted when he was born.
06:06Fireflies like souls.
06:08He looks at stars and still hears boys, Mwibi.
06:12But now also hears father, cow that watches calf eat and is also hyena.
06:18So question for season 1.
06:21Will Mokibi return to Kampala to speak truth?
06:24Will he find boy he left?
06:26Will boy's safe rides forgive him?
06:29Will 4 women, Grace, Aisha, Sharon, Tina, and 4 kids, Aaron Avery, Jamal, Malaika, Jr., understand why he ran?
06:40Episode 001, the beating.
06:43Okatoma.
06:45Tata, I will return.
06:47Tomorrow.
06:48I must go back to boys.
06:51Not as Boda man who ran.
06:53As man who will say SSI ends, not me, was true.
06:58Boy was not thief.
07:00And we beat wrong person.
07:02I must say.
07:03I must say.
07:07If you like.
07:08You know.
07:10Oh.
07:11Oh.
07:16Oh.
07:20Oh.
07:25Oh.
07:26Oh.
07:27Oh.
07:27Oh.
07:29Oh.
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