Awa Gassama

A multimillion-dollar business, a beautiful young wife, and all the trappings of success should make any man happy, but Ansu is a serial adulterer and it is breaking Amie, his young wife’s heart. For Ansu, prevention is the key when playing around with other women, but he fails to realise that what he fears the most will haunt his heart forever because one wrong move is all it takes.

The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.