Author
Reginald C Ofodile

Synopsis
Obi, a young, upper class Nigerian doctor, appears. He is also an Army Officer, in Sierra Leone as part of a Peace Keeping Force sent to quell the disturbances in that country. He is in combat gear, is severely wounded, crumbles to the ground and becomes still.

Back in Nigeria, Obi’s friend Chima is on the beach. A young man in his twenties, he sees a beautiful girl, Nkoyo, and adroitly chats her up. Chima is an artist, urbane, witty, turbulent. Nkoyo reveals her private fears, and Chima discusses his agony over the safety of his best and bosom friend, Obi, fighting in Sierra Leone.

Months later, Chima and Nkoyo are a married couple, and their romantic idyll is occasionally disrupted by Chima’s distraught grief. For it is now certain that Obi perished in Sierra Leone. Then Obi appears in their sitting room. Chima, confronted with the ‘ghost’ of his friend, faints dead away. Obi, a doctor always equipped with first aid, revives Chima. He explains he did not die in Sierra Leone, but was ill for a long time in a bush hospital.

Obi is briefly Chima’s and Nkoyo’s house guest. Chima, a talented writer, is impetuous and amusing. When Chima is absent, Nkoyo pours out her marriage problems to Obi.

In the next scene, several months later, Chima is ecstatic, for Nkoyo has just had a baby. Nkoyo is in anguish. She finally confesses to Chima that the baby, Nnanna, was actually fathered by Obi, that the baby was conceived while Obi was their house guest. Chima’s reactions astonish Nkoyo, and events culminate in a situation she never anticipated. View extract.

Cast
2 male, 1 female, 1 baby

Duration
50 mins

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