Nyenea is the uniquely Liberian story of a family's nightmarish experience as their beloved son becomes a child soldier with the most fearsome and barbaric rebel group in the country's brutal civil war.

The story follows the Mleh family, who've recently moved to their farm in Mount Gibi when the National Patriotic Front of Liberia attacks a town at the border between Liberia and the Ivory Coast. After resigning from his engineering job, Mr. Nuteh Mleh moves to the farm with his wife, Polan, and their only son, Nyenea, for whom they have waited a long time after the birth of...