Stero dearly loves her husband and the new life that she has begun with him, but something is missing - something that she craves, something that she"ll do anything to get. In so doing, she will begin a chain of events more terrible than she could ever have envisaged . . . Set against the rich and haunting backdrop of modern Africa and furnished with a company of characters so humanly flawed that they"ll be familiar to all, Jonathan W Mangbon"s tragic allegory reminds us of the evils we can so easily fall prey to, but also, by comparison, of the virtues that will deliver us.