Idemudia is a young and highly principled man living in
Nigeria in the 1970s. Brilliant at school, he had to drop
out on account of the inability to pay school fees. He
migrated to the city in search of jobs but all he could get
were menial jobs, which at any rate never lasted long due to
the exploitative nature of the employers.
He is married to the beautiful and comely Adisa. Unable to
find a job Idemudia sometimes resorts to selling pints of
his blood to feed his family. At a point he falls sick. He
is taken to the hospital but there is no money to pay the
bills. Idemudia cannot be discharged from the hospital. The
unjustness of the society is revealed in a play put together
by patients to mark the Nightingale day. The play is called
“Violence”.
A rich man has the hots for Idemudia’s wife Adisa
notwithstanding the fact that she is married and continues
to pester her. Unable to find any means of meeting the
hospital bill so that Idemudia could be discharged from
hospital, Adisa succumbs to the rich man. This is against a
warning Idemudia had issued that he would kill Adisa if
another man ever touched her.
Out of the hospital, Idemudia tries to unionise casual
workers at a building site to improve their pay. Their
employer tempts Idemudia with everything including her body
to break up the union but Idemudia remains resolute.
To humiliate Idemudia, the woman reveals to him that her own
husband had slept with Adisa. This is too much for Idemudia
as he rushes home to confirm and to carry out his threat….
