A story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but by the very circumstances of their lives

Omovo is a Nigerian office-worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has many friends and some enemies, but most important of all there is Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion—not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together.