Chained to a Tree By His Father for Fourteen Years | A Man in Chain

In a family compound in rural Ghana, a man has spent fourteen years chained to a tree - restrained in a country where mental health care barely exists. In this unflinching portrait we witness a household that has quietly organized itself around this tragic situation.

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