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The film lays bare JB's complex relationship with his homeland and own sense of identity, confused by his decision to flee, and by his exile in the West.

JB's brother returned to Rwanda, where he died of malaria. Crossing the border was "a one-way ticket", he says. But it was in a refugee camp in Goma that JB and his elder brother, Jean-Paul, were hired as translators by two reporters.

"We were hired, and in a sense we were saved. They would share food and give us bottled water.

"When the story died they left. They made me a promise that if I even made it out of the situation I should look them up. I did."

JB made his way to Kenya, where the British embassy granted him asylum in the UK. The two reporters welcomed him into their homes and became his "adopted mothers".

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