Much like countless children across the globe, Elikia and Joseph have been torn from their homes and families, pressed into service in a brutal civil war. This is the child soldiers’ testimonial: the story of an unlikely flight towards freedom where welcome remains uncertain.

Hauntingly evocative and devastatingly beautiful, The Sound of Cracking Bones presents a lyrical recollection of two children's capture, escape, and rescue, in the words of the girl who has learned to see the gun as an extension of her arm.