THE UGLY ONES
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In the town of *Umuzu*, children born with deformities or physical differences are branded as *the ugly ones* - cursed, blamed for droughts, deaths, and misfortune. They are hidden, shamed, or worse... discarded.
But when *Nnenna*, a defiant mother, refuses to give up her child and begins a silent protest, she unintentionally ignites a slow-burning revolution. One that forces the town to confront not only superstition, but the deeper, systemic ugliness it has long ignored - corruption, abuse of power, and the failure to protect its most vulnerable.
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