11/4/22

Nimo - The School Dropout Film

The film begins with Nimo, Nyapal, and Gloria sitting around Nyapal's desk. The teacher arrives in class, and Nimo and Gloria rush to their respective desks. As Gloria walks to her desk, her classmates notice a stain on her dress and laugh. Nimo and Nyapal rush Gloria to the bathroom as the rest of the class continues laughing. The teacher handles the situation as Nimo and Nyapal help Gloria how to handle herself in the time of her menstrual period.

In the other part of the story Nimo goes shopping with a shopping list to Rahma before Abdi, Rahma’s husband asks to let him serve Nimo. Abdi an old man with 2 other wives falls in love with Nimo as he inquires about her from Mohamed a customer. In the evening after school Nimo Finds a congregation at her home as her father breaks the news of her arranged marriage. Nimo pleads with her father to complete her studies as she is only 15, but her father hears none of it as he tells her to choose between curses and blessings. Dejected and weeping Nimo chooses her father’s blessings. The story ends well when Nimo turns to her class teacher for help; together with TDH, and the police Nimo is saved from early marriage as her father is interrogated by the police.

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