Once Were Warriors
Their People Once Were Warriors. But Once... Was a Long Time Ago
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A harrowing, intimate portrait of domestic violence and cultural displacement that centers a mother's desperate fight to protect her family from systemic despair.
In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.
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