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When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school. Surrounded by unknown faces that soon become friends, lovers and enemies, Obiefuna finds and hides who he truly is, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold on to her favourite son, her truest friend. When he leaves school as a young man, Nigeria criminalizes same-sex relationships and Obiefuna's life, or the life he wants to live, becomes even harder to envision out of reach in a way that is more dangerous and tangible than before.