The Girl in the Yellow Jumper

The Girl in the Yellow Jumper

202081 min5.4 / 10

A tense, deliberately ambiguous thriller that uses confined-space storytelling and unreliable narration to explore the slipperiness of truth amid violence and moral uncertainty.

As word spreads that there is a serial killer at large who continues to commit murder, an off-duty police officer must return an elderly witness who lives in a remote part of Uganda back to town. Along the way, the policeman gives a ride to an injured man. On the way to the city, the passenger tells the policeman the events that led him to end up injured in the middle of the road. But as we travel with these mysterious characters in the car, director Loukman Ali shows us that the stories they tell are only fragmentary and partial versions of the events that took place, and that perhaps there are truths buried beneath each of their words.

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