In 2018, Dr Stella Nyanzi wrote a poem about the president of Uganda that landed her in prison. There, she refused bail and disrobed in court when her hearing didn’t go well. In 2020, she left Luzira Women’s Maximum Security Prison with a crown on her head and a “fuck oppression” sash across her body. Soon after, she announced she would run for parliament. The film follows her through a hectic campaign characterised by police brutality, high excitement, pressure from her children, and the masses she wants to deliver from poverty and bad governance. At the end of the long and exhausting campaign journey, her children are unhappy, her lover has abandoned her and she is haunted by not only the loss of the election but from her own story. Ongoing lack of security leads her to flee the country to provide a safe place for her children, leaving her newly reconnected lover behind.

We would like this film to inspire oppressed peoples of the world especially those on the margins of society such as women, ex-prisoners, nonbinary and queer people to find communities of support and to realise that an activist does not have to be like a superhero but can be an ordinary person like them, the way Stella Nyanzi is. Our film covers themes related to the intersection between human rights and sexuality, gender, democracy, police brutality, right to protests, right to assemble, freedom of speech, writers' rights, among others and we would like to create a global conversation about these with specific activist groups.