When Nestor was a teenager and living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he became a target of armed militias recruiting child soldiers. They came to his school, pulling pupils out against their will. As the conflict escalated and with his life in peril, his uncle flew with him to Scotland, doing his best to get him to safety — but then left him to his own devices at a Glasgow train station.
Nestor would never see his uncle again. At the time, he was just 16. He had no money, spoke no English and had never been outside the DRC. His father, a prominent political journalist, had died two years earlier and Nestor was estranged from his mother, so when his uncle left him on that railway platform, he was utterly alone in an alien world. His uncle later passed away, and they never saw each other again.
