Patrick Ghaiji is a sixteen-year-old Tutsi living with his parents and little sister in a small settlement outside Kigali, the capital. Patrick's life is thrown into peril when the news of the President's murder hits the radio wave in the peaceful settlement. A group of soldiers, mostly Hutus, are deployed to Patrick's village with a simple mission of relocating the Tutsi population living in the territory to a safe location outside the country's borders to avoid a full-scale ethnic war. Since the President was Hutu (an ethnic tribe in Rwanda), the Tutsis (another ethnic tribe) were immediately targeted and accused by Hutus of having the President killed. Things turned ugly when these soldiers opened fire on whom they were to protect, thus shattering Patrick's world. In the aftermath of the attack at the settlement, Patrick is left with only his sister to protect as they face a world tearing apart as genocide gradually takes form. The Rain in April is a fictional book based on the Rwanda genocide of 1994. It contains interwoven stories of various fiction characters beautifully tailored to show the struggle faced in desperate and trying times.