The First Grader

“It's never too late to dream.”

An old man in the Kenyan highlands walks into a primary school and asks for a desk beside the six-year-olds. Kimani N'gan'ga Maruge (Oliver Litondo) is 84, a former Mau Mau fighter, and the government has just promised free education to everyone. Justin Chadwick sets his fight with the officials against his teacher Jane Obinchu (Naomie Harris), who has to decide whether a man who never learned to read belongs in her classroom.