Guilty: After killing a man in self-defence, Bobby Crandel is playing a game called Sixteen Days to Die. When he hears his chosen death-sentence spoken aloud during the day, he’ll commit suicide. Simple? It may be, but Afua’s life is anything but. A young Ghanaian girl, posing as a boy aboard a trafficker’s ship, headed for England. Afua’s journey, like Bobby’s will take sixteen days. Follow their parallel journeys, one mental and one physical, towards the final meeting that only one of them will survive. But who deserves to live, and who deserves to die? Is it ever fair? And, will it hurt?