Rejected and Written Off

*Rejected and Written Off* – a gritty, raw, hopeful and lyrical re‑imagining of Michael Rwasunda's life, *based on a true story*.

Born in 1987 under the bruised‑purple sky of Hwedza, Zimbabwe, Kundai grows up in a mud‑thatched hut where his mother, a nineteen‑year‑old with a spine of steel, fights drought, poverty and a violent step‑father. After a brutal night that forces his mother to flee through a shattered window, Kundai is taken in by a harsh grandmother in Headlands, where he endures ...