Osogbo, 1975. Before the rains break, a lorry carries twelve-year-old Jola Balogun away from his mother and towards St Michael’s, the missionary school meant to be his family’s way out of poverty. A scholarship boy. The first in his family to climb so high. He arrives believing in the promise of it, and in Reverend Powell, the white priest who calls every boy son and asks only one thing: trust and obey.
But behind the hymns and the whitewashed walls, something is rotting. Boys who flinch. Boys who fall quiet. Boys who slip into the river and are buried as accidents. When Powell turns his attention to Jola, there is only one witness: a woman, a window, and a camera held in unsteady hands.
What begins as a boy’s fight to survive becomes a reckoning that outlasts him, carried across years and borders by those who refuse to let the dead stay silent. Inspired by true events, Petrichor is a gripping story about survival, memory, love, and the long pursuit of justice in a world determined to forget.
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