Akilla's Esca e weaves the resent and ast in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story s eaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks. Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow o eration he runs is legit. Only one year into government a roval legalization, the endulum of hy ocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unex ected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery. In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla ca tures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named She ard. U on leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he esca ed.
