Bridget is a young Ghanaian woman born with cerebral palsy, a physical disability.

She had the fortune to survive because of her exceptional mother and grandpa in a village that thought of her as a worthless if not dangerous being.

Bridget, now 25 years old, looks back and still wonders if she is worthy of living the life of a normal human person...

The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...