Kamau, a young man battling depression and emotional exhaustion, sits alone with a bottle of pills, contemplating ending his life. The world around him feels distant, numbed by grief, disappointment, and the unbearable weight of simply existing.
An unusual old man joins him and begins an unexpectedly darkly humorous conversation about pain, loneliness, God, and death. What starts as awkward small talk slowly transforms into a deeply philosophical confrontation about what it means to live when life feels unbearable. The old man challenges Kamau’s cynicism with strange wisdom, forcing him to unpack the exhaustion he has hidden behind sarcasm and silence.
The old man reveals that Kamau exists in a liminal space between life and death, a place where souls pause when their bodies no longer wish to carry them. Kamau is offered a choice: surrender to the stillness of death or return to a painful world that has wounded him repeatedly.
Written and directed by Thayũ, Shall We Go? is a haunting, intimate psychological drama that explores depression, isolation, masculinity, and the fragile human instinct to survive. Balancing existential philosophy with distinctly Kenyan humor and emotional honesty, the film becomes a meditation on the thin line between giving up and choosing, one more time, to stay alive.
