The Crows Plucked Your Sinews

May 2011: A young Somali woman sits in the dark of a Woolwich council house watching the assassination of Osama Bin Laden unfold on TV. Upstairs her ailing grandmother is talking to ghosts.

August 1913: The British are at war…in the Horn of Africa. In the interior of British Somaliland the hunt for the ‘Mad Mullah’ is on. A woman dervish warrior searches the body of a British Tommy. In the morning the killing will begin. ‘Say, the dervish are like the advancing thunderbolts of a storm, rumbling and roaring’. Soon these two worlds will collide and change everyones’ lives.