Nineteen year old Osinachi had only one ambition, to get as far away from her mother as is possible.
Nineteen year old Osinachi had only one ambition, to get as far away from her mother as is possible. To achieve this dream, Osinachi bows, even though she loathes them, to her mother’s stringent measures to groom her into a ‘well brought-up’ girl, the kind a wealthy man might notice and marry. But marriage is slippery for Osinachi. Her first betrothed, Zimuzo, travels overseas for a supposed yearlong postgraduate program before they could wed. Emenike, whom she marries, disappears during the Biafran war, lost on a risky run of smuggling monetary notes on the Nigerian-Biafran border. Believing her husband to be dead, Osinachi falls for Ochagha, her benefactor and a former Biafran officer. Their romance is forced to end when Emenike suddenly reappears, a damaged man. Suffering from severe traumatic brain injury He is amnestic, temperamental, and prone to seizures. Worst of all, he molests their teenage daughter. Osinachi, who only ever wanted to take refuge in marriage, must now decide. In a society that has little tolerance for a woman without a husband, should she leave Emenike now that she can no longer trust him with their daughter’s safety? Or should she stay?