Drought drives a small village in Somalia into poverty, causing a boy to leave for Mogadishu in search of opportunities. However, in the city he finds no jobs and ends up in a tent city. He is later approached by al-Shabaab, a terrorist group, who provide him money and purpose. One day, the boy carries out a suicide bombing in Mogadishu as an al-Shabaab member. The story illustrates how lack of opportunities for unemployed youth in cities can leave them vulnerable to recruitment by terrorist groups promising money and meaning. The speaker wonders if he too might have been susceptible to radicalization had he not left his hometown in Somalia due to high unemployment rates among youth there.