The grass driveway winds past gum plants into an overgrown courtyard, where a bungalow with a rusting roof broods beneath the dark skies and lightning of the rainy season. The remnants of a bonfire smoulder in a flowerbed.
Local people refuse to come anywhere near, claiming the place is haunted.
Theresa Kibwetere, the old woman who pokes open the door, is frail and stooped, a pendant of the Pope strung around her neck. She is the wife of Joseph Kibwetere, Uganda's most wanted man and the leader of a millennial cult that has taken the lives of as many as 700 followers. Theresa, a devout Roman Catholic, is coming to terms with the fact that her estranged and demented husband could be a mass murderer. The smoking pyre outside indicates that the family believes he is dead, a victim of the explosion and inferno at the cult's church in Kanungu a week ago. The Ugandan authorities fear otherwise, and have launched a nationwide hunt for Kibwetere.