Fight Like a Girl

10/1/2026

"Safi" (Ama Qamata) was snatched, brutally, from her happy childhood with her parents in rural Congo and put to work panning the river for some renegade mercenaries whose ultimate sanctions against any rebelliousness from their workforce was death or rape. By a stroke of sheer luck one afternoon, an opportunity presents itself for her to flee and after a very timely and kindly intervention, she finds herself in the city. Now homeless and penniless, she manages to convince a fisherman to let her take his catch to market for him but that won't get her from her makeshift home where the unwanted attentions of random men is very much the order of the day. It's her reaction to one such approach that attracts the attention of local boxing trainer "Kibomango" (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) who seeks to give h