On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Shula discovers her uncle's body on a deserted road in the dead of night. Returning home for the funeral, she and her cousins are thrust into a painful excavation of the past. Beneath the rituals of mourning and the veneer of a middle-class Zambian family's respectability, long-buried secrets begin to fester. The relatives' silence, the performative unity, and the weight of unspeakable memories rise to the surface, threatening to tear the delicate fabric of family ties apart. The funeral transforms into a battleground where truth and convenient lies collide, with every tradition becoming a catalyst for fresh confrontation.