Punishment Island Lake Bunyoni is a beautiful, serene body of water in Central Africa, studded with many islands of different shapes and sizes. The water is always calm and the atmosphere is peaceful, but somewhere in the middle of all this tranquility one finds the smallest of all the islands. A single barren tree, home to a large group of black cormorants. They are a constant reminder of the island's dark, secret past.

Mauda's fate On a dark winter night in 1954 three young women stood at the edge of the water. Two of them had already been on the island a couple of days, while eighteen year old Mauda had just arrived. None of them knew how to swim. Although they lived around the lake and made a living from it, most people in this part of Uganda still don't know how to swim.