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Ochomma is an African
tribal village hero, who had seen the good and bad sides of life. His
life is suddenly turned upside down, by a coup and counter-coup in the
country's capital, far away from his village. His peaceful village life
is upstaged by a chain of events which eventually culminated in a civil
war. Thousands of his tribesmen are killed by mobs in the north, and
their bodies arrive back to the village, causing quite a stir. Refugees
displaced by the crisis also find their way home to tell the tales of
woe. Emotions run high and this leads to the secession of the Eastern
region from Nigeria, with a new name, Biafra. Ochomma finds himself and
his family caught in this crisis. His half-brother, a soldier, goes off
to war, never to return. His only son, Chibuike, escapes attempts to
conscript him as a child soldier. Incidentally, Ochomma kills Sochi his
brother in the night, in a mysterious case of mistaken identity,
although it was well known that Ochomma never liked him, because he was
'good for nothing'. He had killed quite a number of people in the past,
but this one killing changed him, especially as he covered it up to
protect his mother from grief and to also avoid banishment from the
clan. As the war progressed, with its attendant devastation, hunger and
betrayal, Ochomma's village relocates to a refugee camp, but he refuses
to leave his compound. His mother's eventual death makes him change his
mind. Was this for better or for worse?
