Nonso Odogwu

Amaka, a modern woman with a career, a daughter, and a loving husband, is almost forty and pregnant with their second child. Her husband’s entire family are passionately hoping that it will be a boy. But when she has a miscarriage, she takes extreme measures to keep the hope of a male heir alive.

In a story based on real events, a boy deals with disease and despair in a remote Nigerian village — until an unexpected source of help changes his life.