The First Grader : Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Oliver Litondo, Nick Reding, Vusi Kunene, Dan 'Churchill' Ndambuki, John Sibi-Okumu, Israel Makoe, Emily Njoki, Shoki Mokgapa, Kamau Mbaya, Justin Chadwick, Sam Feuer, David M. Thompson, Richard Harding, Ann Peacock

In a small; remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush; hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government.

One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school.

He is Maruge (Litondo); an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties; who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life.

He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long deniedaeven if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six-year-olds.