Okechukwu Oku

When a mother's love fades, hope remains

A woman awakens to a life she doesn’t remember—complete with a husband and two kids. As she struggles to understand her new reality and find a way back to her old life, she discovers that her “husband” is holding her captive, desperate to keep her under the spell he cast five years ago to make her his wife.

When Ebere's estranged mother comes to help out with her infant son, their strained relationship has an unexpected chance at rebirth.

“The Bride Price” follows the story of a barely educated spare parts dealer who cuts off his wife’s family from their lives after he was made to pay through his nose for her.

Faced with the pressure of delivering on her job, Violet, a young woman in her 20s, deals with the complication of turning down the romantic advances from her biggest customer—an older family man. This complication goes up a notch when she finds herself falling in love with his son.

When Levi, is diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition, he decides to look for and get his childhood love interest (Somi), so they can finally be together before his death. However, Somi is already married, but Levi will not accept defeat.

Rose has a firm understanding of the virtuous woman as imparted by her mother, not so practiced by her sister. Her desire for a better life without selling her dignity seems to be in the person of Desmond, a man she fell in love with at first sight regardless of their differences. He introduces her to everything he knows rather untimely and before she can stop herself, she is wrapped in his world, a place she would rather not be.

Bambitious is a modern-day story about a very ambitious young woman named Bambi, who epitomised Evita Peron – described as the “highest social climber since Cinderella”. Bambi got disillusioned with Frank, her boyfriend of many years, who was content with living from hand to mouth. This lack of ambition was at the centre of all their fights. Then one day, Frank ventures to “open the door” for Bambi’s exit – a move he later came to regret. Once free of the wretched Frank, Bambi meets and sinks her teeth into the very rich, near-naïve Jerry. He go so carried away by her beauty that he even proposed marriage before they got intimate. Same day, Bambi realises that she is pregnant. How would she pass off Frank’s pregnancy as Jerry’s? Then, there is the issue of his mother, a devout Catholic – who frowns at pre-marital sex. And the imminent trouble of Jerrys’s ex-girlfriend, Funmi Coker, who refused to remain in the past.