“Freedom means you can do what you want, and by God’s grace I will get it,” says one of the young women featured in “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram.” Gemma Atwal’s (“Marathon Boy”) upcoming HBO documentary is the next chapter in the international headline-making story of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped in 2014 and held captive by the Boko Haram, a jihadist militant organization. Three years after their abduction, 103 of the girls returned. “Stolen Daughters” offers them a platform to tell their stories.
“I have seen so much pain and suffering. Am I really free from that suffering?” one of the characters asks.
“Granted exclusive access to the freed girls, who were taken to a secret government safe house in the capitol of Abuja upon their release last year, the film shows how the young women are adapting to life after their traumatic imprisonment and how the Nigerian government is handling their reentry into society,” according to the doc’s official synopsis.
“Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram” debuts on HBO October 22.
