I don’t think so, but before you judge me, please read the recap.
The Recap
A man calls out to Yetunde, thirty-two years ago, and she appears carrying a child. They proceed to argue, and he beats her up.
In the present day, the woman, now middle-aged, wakes up from a nightmare shouting. Her daughter and maid rush to her bedside to comfort her.
Her security man, Bassey, comes in to tell her about a girl who came to apply for the position of a cook.
She tells him to bring her in. As she interviews the girl, she finds out the girl is Igbo and asks her to leave her house.
She then warns Bassey never to make such a mistake ever again.
While in the car, her daughter, Simi and her friend discuss Yetunde’s hatred for the Igbos. Simi also says that she has refused to tell her mother about her boyfriend, Chike because of Yetunde’s bias against the Igbos.
Simi visits her boyfriend Chike and meets his father. His father immediately takes a liking to her.
Chike then sees her off to her car, and they discuss her mother.
He asks to see her mother but Simi objects, stressing her mother’s hostility against Igbo people.
But Chike persists, insisting that he might be the exception to rule. He even makes an example with his father, saying that his father wasn’t happy when he heard about Simi, but all that miraculously changed after meeting her.
Simi obliges and promises to inform her mother about their relationship.
Later that night, Simi practises how she would break the news to her mother. After she decides on a method, she goes to meet her mother.
Yetunde informs Simi that her friend, Nike, is coming over with her son, Oluwatigbemiga “Gbenga”, for dinner the next day.
Simi tells Yetunde to stop matchmaking her, but Yetunde answers saying that Simi’s biological clock is ticking.
Simi then asks Yetunde why she ordered the Igbo girl to leave their house in the morning, and Yetunde replies with “you know how I feel about the Igbos“.
Nike and Gbenga are at Yetunde’s for dinner. Nike reveals to Yetunde that she told Gbenga to only marry a Yoruba girl.
Yetunde goes to fetch Simi, and when Simi arrives, Gbenga is in awe of her beauty.
On some other day, Simi gets a call from Chike, and she rushes to meet him at the hospital where his father was admitted. She consoles him and takes him out for lunch.
Gbenga meets up with Simi at her office and offers that they go out for dinner together. Simi obliges him.
At the end of the night, he drops her off at home and asks her if there is someone else.
She admits that there is, but he is Igbo, and that her mother will freak out if she knew. Gbenga then encourages her to come clean to her mother.
As she is about to go inside her house, he asks her “would choose me if you had no one else?” and she answers with a “maybe“.
Gbenga and his mother, Nike, discuss Simi. She urges him to play his cards right because Simi is an heiress to a very massive fortune.
Simi and Chike argue about her failure to tell her mother about their relationship.
Later that night when she gets home, Simi’s finds her mother already ordering fabrics for her impending nuptials to Gbenga.
Simi then confesses that she has a boyfriend and that he is Igbo.
When Yetunde hears that he is Igbo, she has a mental breakdown, threatening to kill herself with a broken wine bottle.
Yetunde stops speaking to Simi and goes to Chike’s home to slap and threaten him.
Yetunde then goes to Nike for help, and Nike suggests that they murder Chike.
Yetunde fakes an illness that prevents Simi from going to visit Chike. Yetunde then makes a call to a mechanic to have Chike’s brakes tempered with.
The next morning, Yetunde is visited by two men who inform her about the passing of her daughter, Simi.
Yetunde confesses to being responsible for their deaths. However, she is taken to a hospital where she discovers that they never died.
Simi then asks Yetunde to tell her the real reason for her hatred and Yetunde tells her about her first marriage to an Igbo man named Uzor.
Uzor was the love of her life, but he mistreated her and took her son, Ifeanyi, away from her. When she finally went back to get her son, she was told that he had died.
Chike apologises on behalf of Mr Uzor and assures her that not all Igbos are like that.
Yetunde accepts his apology and apologises as well. She then consents to them getting married.
Chike’s father walks into the room they’re in, and Yetunde recognises him as Uzor, the man that killed her son.
Uzor, tells her that her son never died, he only changed his name to Chike. Uzor then turns to Chike and says, “this is your mother“.
Both Chike and Yetunde are excited to meet each other, but Yetunde’s excitement is cut short when it dawns on her that her children may have committed incest.
Simi then reveals that they were waiting until after marriage which restores Yetunde’s joy. She then grabs Chike by the hand, and they walk out together.
Gbenga draws Simi back to tell her that they are meant for each other and asks if she would consider him now.
Simi smiles, prompting him to kiss her on the forehead.
My Thoughts
First of all, the way they moved on from the emotional incest that both siblings committed is baffling.
You mean to tell me that one year of saying “baby”, “honey” and “I love you” has been erased? Just like that?
Secondly, the dialogue in this movie was not good at all especially when it came to that Bassey character.
There was no need to make an Imeh Bishop out of him.
Thirdly, what exactly was Yetunde’s friend’s name? At the dinner where Gbenga and Simi first met, she called herself “Temi”. But in the final scene, Simi kept calling her “Aunty Nike”.
The movie is very superficial. It is overly simplistic and lacking any depth or character development.
Their scenes for thirty-two years ago were not in tune with the times.
Uzor used the slang “knack” which is a lingo from the 2010s in a scene that was supposed to be set in 1987.
The movie lacked translations. So if you are neither Igbo nor Yoruba, you are on your own.
My verdict
I give this movie a 0.5 out of 5. It was easy to tell that budget was a little tight but, it was no excuse for the poor story.
Cast and Crew
Directed by John Njamah
Produced by Chiemela Nwagboso
Written by Nduka Ernest Nwobodo
Starring
- Ayo Adesanya as Yetunde
- Chika Anyanwu as Uzor
- Caz Chidiebere as Chike
- Elohor Festus Ogbenro as Simi
- Ego Nworji as Nike/Temi
- Desmond Dozie as Gbenga
Director of Photography by Igwe Ikechukwu and Henry Mba
Edited by Chris Louis Ugo
Year of Release 2019
Running time 96 minutes
Country Nigeria
Language English, Yoruba, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin
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