In the late 1960s, the teenager Echeune flees the wrath of a society that discriminates and alienates her gender into the wilderness. Born in triple succession of girls means ancient myths is at work and makes her worthless. In pursuit of a new leaf, she confronts enemies worse than she did leave behind. She survives by hairs breathe but gains enigmatic powers and returns, engaging cultural oracles in a mysterious battle that exceeds all expectation as men brittles in a comic, exorbitant, and sad manner into the gender they so despised.
After the death of his beloved mother, Owunebe is adopted into his father's family, to live alongside his half brothers and sisters, for the sake of tribal purity and morality. When raised by his stepmother, Anyenu, who is furious at the constant reminder of her husband's infidelity, Owunebe no longer feels the tender touch of a mother's love, but rather the cane and sharp tongue of Anyenu. While his father plans to temper Owunebe's native upbringing with the white man's ways, Anyenu plots to destroy any relationship between them, so as to keep the future royal throne of Akpachi for her own firstborn. As the story unfolds and Owunebe begins to become a man, he is faced with the decision of whether to succumb to the evil ways of Anyenu, or to rise above the persecution, with only strength of character and human dignity to carry him through.
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