In traditional societies, social class barriers like the 'osu' outcast status can prevent love between individuals of different backgrounds, but persistent love and determination can eventually overcome these obstacles, leading to social transformation and equality.
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Is it that you are sick in the head OR SOMETHING?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS NONSENSE?
SO, HAD IT BEEN SHE DID NOT SEE YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE KILLED YOURSELF BECAUSE OF AN OUTCAST?
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS FORGETTING THE FACT THAT YOU ARE A PRINCESS?
THE BLOOD THAT IS FLOWING IN YOUR VEINS IS ROYAL BLOOD.
YOU WANT TO SHED THE ROYAL BLOOD BECAUSE OF AN OUTCAST?
LET THIS BE THE VERY LAST TIME THIS WILL happen because IF I DO HEAR THIS AGAIN, I'm going to deal with you severely.
AM I UNDERSTOOD?
DID I MAKE MYSELF [screaming] CLEAR?
YES.
REINVENT YOURSELF.
OLA.
REINVENT YOURSELF.
GET OUT OF MY SIGHT.
IF YOU DID NOT COME, YOU WOULD KILL YOURSELF.
A PRINCESS.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> GET OUT OF THE WAY, YOU old fool.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You are serving me water with a smile on your face.
And I'm not seeing that smile in your heart.
What is going on?
Father, I have something to ask.
I thought as much.
What is it?
Father, who is an osu?
An osu is someone a freeborn like you must not have anything to do with.
That is an osu. It's as as simple as that.
Why?
Why won't we have anything to do with the person?
You are not going to have anything to do with an osu because an osu is an osu and you are not one.
So, Father, how do people become an osu?
It will vary from community to community.
But in our own community, the osu we have here are people whose great-grandfathers were disobedient to constituted authority as at that time. And they were punished.
And instead of them to humble themselves and serve the punishment, they decided to go into war with the authority of the land to the extent that they ran into the deity and pleaded to be protected.
By so doing, they severed relationship with our people.
They become Osu because we equally severed the relationship with them.
Why in this world now will anybody who is ranked a freeborn actually want to >> [music] >> do anything with the same people that disobeyed their forefathers?
You carry these tools as if they were the king's gold.
Is it that precious?
Or is it fear that makes you walk so carefully?
When a man carries what his father has labored for, he carries not just the weight of the caliber, but the honor of his blood.
If my step falters, they may hurt my foot, but worse, my father's pride will crash with them.
You speak of pride as as though it's heavier than the tools itself.
Pride is the heaviest load a man carries, >> [music] >> princess. It cannot be carried for him.
It cannot be shared.
And yet it can crush him without mercy.
>> [snorts] >> Your father, well-respected and greatest blacksmith [music] in this land and beyond, doesn't that make your load lighter?
Respected, yes.
Loved, not by all.
You speak as though you've learned to walk on thorns without bleeding.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps I bleed when no one sees.
[music] And if someone were to see?
Then it is left for them to decide if the wound is worth touching.
Or if it is safer to turn away.
Father.
>> Eze I heard you exchange words with the princess today.
She greeted me.
Am I to ignore the king's daughter when she honors me with her voice?
Uh-uh, no.
That is not honor, Eze.
That is temptation in fine clothing.
You know the rules of this land. Rules are made by men, father, and men change them when it suits their game. Quiet!
The tongue that challenges the roof will one day sleep in the rain. And the heart that hides from the rain will never feel the coolness after it.
You talk like a little boy who thinks love can feed him.
Love is sweet, but it cannot pay the bride price of a king's daughter.
Father, if the bride price is counted in gold, then yes. But if it is in truth, then I am richer than many in this land.
Truth does not build a mass compound.
Stay away from that girl. I will not warn you again.
Ma, what is it?
Tell your brother to stay away from Olani.
I do not want any more insult [music] from anyone.
Eze, what did I hear father say?
Do you want him to keep reminding us that you are to Is that it? Adenike, can you hear from me first?
Princess Olani greeted me, and I replied. Is there anything wrong with that? But father asked you to stay away from her. Why can't you just keep it that way?
Greetings.
Ma, someone would like to have a word with you. Who could that be? Tell the person to come in.
Oh.
I'll be right behind you. Okay.
Let's go get him.
>> [music] [music] >> My presence Can you call your brother for me?
My father is restless.
He says your footstep walks too close to my brother's shadow.
And does his shadow frighten him? No.
It's not the shadow that frightens him, but the light you place in it.
Your brother is different.
He listens to me when I speak.
Not just with his ears, but with his eyes and silence.
Difference will not save him from the wrath of the gods.
Have you forgotten who we are?
Perhaps the throne should fear a man that asks for absolutely nothing, but gives everything in his manner.
To me, we are all the same.
And I believe no one was born an outcast.
In this land, love is not enough.
We need the agreement of the elders, the blessings of the ancestors, and the approval of the king.
And what if love itself is the blessing?
>> [snorts] >> Then may the gods protect your butts.
For every blessing comes a trial.
I will wait to hear from him.
Yeah, yeah.
My princess, why him?
And why not him?
>> [snorts] >> I mean, who in this land is as soft-spoken and kind-hearted as Ibu Obueze?
My princess, you have become so soft that you see softness in everything.
Just be careful, my friend. Let's go.
[laughter] >> [music] [music] >> You're so kind-hearted.
I wonder what I would have done if you didn't come when you did.
Let's just say the gods know why they sent me your way.
>> [snorts] >> Thank you so much.
I'll carry it from here.
I This is too heavy for a medicine I keep to carry.
I'll carry it. My house is not far from here. It's just down the road.
Besides, you were going somewhere before you met me.
Um I wasn't going to anywhere serious. I was going to do a bush to customer herbs. Oh, I see.
But I insist. I'll take it from here.
Uh okay. I I think I will shoot go ahead with where I was going to while you continue with your journey.
Okay.
Thank you. I I I will pick it from here.
Sorry.
I didn't get your name.
I am Oka.
My name is Ebubeze.
Ebubeze.
Sorry.
From the firewood you carried. Thank you.
Ebubeze. Thank you so much.
Are you sure you don't need me to help you lift it? I'm totally fine.
Thank you, Ebubeze.
Be good.
Thank you.
He's so handsome.
Do you walk this path every morning?
Or it's my company you seek?
>> [snorts] >> Maybe both.
But if my father asks me, I will tell him I came for the palm fruit.
And if I ask?
Then I will tell you the truth.
I came here hoping to see the one person in this village who [music] makes my steps lighter.
Ebube, you risk much.
Life is risk, princess. [music] Even planting yam seedlings is a gamble.
You put something in the earth and pray it grows instead of rotten.
And what if that seed between us grows?
Then it will grow in the open of the sun.
Even when anyone tries to cut it down.
And what if it rots?
Then I would have known I tried planting it to myself.
>> [snorts] >> Never to live with the regret of not trying at all.
Why are you suddenly sad?
I have a lot on my mind.
Why are some people created to be awesome?
Can we not talk about that?
Why?
Chubby. Are you deaf?
>> Father, I heard you clearly.
>> Then why do you keep going to her?
>> BECAUSE I LOVE HER. LOVE WILL not change your name. It will not OPEN THE GATES OF FREEDOM. Maybe not, but it will surely open her heart.
>> Her heart is NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU FROM the fire.
Then I will freely walk through that fire if it will lead me to her.
Elders, I have spoken before and I will speak again.
The king's daughter moves too freely with the common people.
This morning she walks through the market laughing with the common people who should bow down for her.
Omeka, the king's child greeting her people is no abomination.
When the palm tree bends to give shade, does the grass complain?
Shade is good, Nze, but too much of it breeds dampness and rot.
In doing so, she lowers herself and at the same time lowers the ground on her father's head.
>> [laughter] >> Um Omeaku, you speak as though misfortune is already knocking on our door.
But, this girl is young and she does not know the weight of a title.
And that's ignorance is the danger.
A royal kiss can become a hook on the commoner's neck.
What started as an ordinary greeting will develop into a secret talk. And secret talk will give birth to forbidden desires.
Are you saying someone would dare court the princess?
What I'm saying is that the rain announces itself in the scent of the wind.
And I am not going to wait for the downpour of the rain before I begin to cover my roof.
>> [laughter] [clears throat] >> Omeaku, your tongue [music] is sharp.
And um don't forget that the heart of the young is stubborn.
Then let elders sharpen their eyes before the stubbornness of the youth sets this village on fire.
Yes, my king.
Ezege, my king.
You are walking as if you are the owner of this earth.
When the young barn is full, the owner walks with strong legs, my king.
How many barns do you have? I have three barns, my king.
And these three barns are they full?
Oh, full enough to feed three villages.
But why feed strangers when I can bind wealth to my house?
You are talking in riddles.
Can you speak plainly?
Your daughter, Ola.
I seek a hand.
Ezege, you are not the first person that will be talking about this.
But I'm the only man who can give her the kind of life where she knows no need.
Need?
My daughter is not lacking anything.
My king, she lacks a husband worthy of her.
She lacks a wealthy man.
And a noble man from a noble home.
So, based on what you know of yourself, Ezege, can you call yourself worthy?
My king, I I have lands.
I have cattles.
My king, I have servants.
Who else in this village can beat me, my king?
Ezege, I am telling you as king that the worth of a man is not determined by the number of lands, cows, cattles, and all the things that he may have.
So, what then, my king?
Love?
Love does not fill the stomach.
But love feeds the spirit.
And when a man is in love with the right woman, the man can be said to be complete because he is happy.
But I need you to look me.
Look me in the face and Seg and tell me everything you know about love.
My name is Ugonnaya aka Chugonna for young man.
If you have plans of seeking Ojukwu's hand in marriage, I advise you >> [music] >> step aside.
Because I Ezege will get married to her.
I should step aside.
Who do you think you are?
No, who do YOU THINK YOU ARE?
LIKE I SAID, I am Ezege.
Wealthiest man in this land.
I have barns of yam.
HUH?
I HAVE HERDS OF BOOZE.
I HAVE YOU HAVE NOTHING. [screaming] YOU HAVE NOTHING, YOUNG MAN.
I have men like you as slave in my father's house. So, you don't speak when I speak in Amambala.
Hope you heard me.
Well, man of Amambala, I advise you.
I advise you.
You think you you are man enough?
Hm?
You think you have what what takes to contest with me, Ezege, over [snorts] Ola?
Be careful.
I say again, be careful.
Huh?
We shall see.
We shall see nothing.
WE SHALL SEE NOTHING.
I'M GOING [screaming] TO CRUSH YOU LIKE A LITTLE ANT.
YOU'RE A FOOL!
LOOK AT LOOK AT LOOK AT THIS ONE. ARE YOU THREATENING ME?
YOU CAN'T THREATEN [screaming] ME.
LOOK AT LOOK AT THIS ONE. I SHOULD BE CAREFUL.
>> [laughter] >> DON'T WORRY.
EBUBAE, you are seriously walking on a hot coals.
I hear whispers that Ezege has spoken to the king.
>> Let him speak, na. Let him speak.
Words do not tie the heart of a woman.
They will tie her this time around. They will tie her heart, her feet, even her hands. Ola is not a bird to be caged.
But you you you you you forgot that her father is her cage.
>> Then I will break it.
Ebubae, I wonder how you you sometimes you talk like a warrior, but you are just a farmer, an ordinary farmer.
Every seed I plant is an act of defiance.
This land has taught me patience. No.
Even the stone breaks under the sun's persistence. Persistence will not save you from the hands of Ezege's rod this time. Nor from mine.
I will not let Ola be given away to a man whose arrogance can choke a river.
Then prepare yourself, because this battle is not the battle we are going to fight with hoes or basket.
It's not a cutlass fight.
Are you with me?
Ola, you think about him a lot, don't you?
Who?
My princess, I have seen him with you twice.
Every time the light in your eyes sparkles.
What do you think about him?
Well, Don't tell me he's an osu.
Tell me, what do you think about him?
>> I was not going to call him that.
I think he's a good man. Yes.
And if the gods say it's him, who are we to say otherwise? Mhm.
>> Yes.
Mhm.
See the way you're smiling.
>> [laughter] >> Ola.
The daughter of the sun herself.
Your beauty radiates. It shames the morning.
Morning greetings, Iseghe.
I hear you visit the river often.
The river is a lonely place.
You should have company.
Perhaps, mine. I am not lonely, Iseghe.
The river listens without speaking.
But a man's voice warms the heart more than the whispers of water.
Yet, the river does not own what it sees.
Everything beautiful, Olla, must be claimed.
Or maybe you should let it be so that it remains beautiful.
Olla, you speak like someone who has been listening to wrong counsel.
>> I speak like myself.
Soon enough, you'll speak like my wife.
Olla, why are you sitting here alone?
Why are you not preparing with the other maidens for the moon dance?
Father, I will dance when my spirit wants, and not when others are being told to.
It is actually very clear you inherited your mother's stubborn tongue.
But I need you to understand that stubbornness is for men.
A woman's strength is her gentleness.
Or perhaps in her courage.
Gentleness is not always enough, father.
Courage is for warriors.
A princess has her place within the palace walls where she is permanently safe, >> [snorts] >> always protected.
You are going to marry a man who is worthy of your blood.
And what if my heart chooses a man whose blood is not worthy in your eyes?
Then your heart is going to learn wisdom.
Because what is flowing in you is not just blood.
What is flowing in you is honor of generations.
Honor without love is a prison, father.
You speak as someone who has already found a man.
Who is he?
Father, I haven't said anything. Yet you suspect everything.
All I do not allow your beauty to deceive you.
You may actually elect to forget every other thing, >> [clears throat] >> but always do not forget who you are.
You will you shame me?
Did I not tell you to stay away from that palace girl?
>> Father, she is not just a palace girl.
She is my >> THAT GIRL IS TROUBLE. Do you think the king will allow you marry his daughter?
You they call the son of an outcast.
Father, they call you an outcast, not me. I am only a man.
Eze, obey.
In this village, every man is his father's shadow. Then let me be the shadow that walks towards the sun, not one that hides in the dust. Stop speaking to me in riddles, and stay away FROM THAT GIRL. OTHERWISE, I WILL YOU will do what, father? You will do what?
Beat me until my heart forgets her?
My heart does not obey fear.
Eze, obey.
Fear will keep you alive, but love will dig YOUR GRAVE.
>> [snorts] >> EZE, OBEY.
EZE, OBEY.
GREETINGS, FATHER.
OLA.
EVEN as I am seated here, I can actually feel your heart pounding.
>> [music] >> What is it?
Father, it's not in it, sir. The heat.
The heat?
Ola, we are in the middle of the harmattan, and you are talking about heat.
Something is eating you up, and I need you to open up to me before it swallows you.
I I met someone.
Someone as in a man?
Exactly. Exactly. There's something I said earlier and you put up this attitude that showed I was talking the abominable.
Regardless, I saw it clearly.
Who is the man?
Which family is he from?
Ezequiel.
Ezequiel as in Omenka's son?
That that the seed of an outcast?
Father, he's kind.
He listens to me when I speak.
Not like others that only see your throne.
Now, listen to me.
Kindness may be able to wash a whole lot of things.
But kindness cannot wash a stain that is buried inside the blood.
What are you doing?
Do you want to have people whispering in the marketplaces?
Now, do you want them to insult me as a king?
Laugh at me? Is that what you want?
Father, he had choices.
Like the farmer in the yam barn, but he finds its own yam and holds on to it.
Your proverb is meaningless.
I need you to listen to me and I want you to listen [music] attentively.
The day you will decide to follow that boy will be the day you finish digging your own grave.
>> Olah.
I thought the sun would set before you came.
I almost did not.
My father, he knows.
And?
He called you names.
He said our love is like planting cocoyam in dry season.
>> [snorts] >> Cocoyam grows when the sun chooses.
And so do [music] we.
What if he forbids me?
What if he locks me in?
Then I will wait for you.
I'll wait for you.
Even if the seasons change twice.
And what if he sends you away?
I will [music] still find you.
Olah.
I am not afraid of your father's shadow.
You talk like a stubborn hunter. Because my heart is my spear, >> [music] >> and I have aimed it at you.
Father, did you get the letter? Why is he sharpening the cutlass?
The day is already full of enemies.
And one more before the night comes.
Eze, I said we'll be near the palace. saw Near the palace?
Doing what?
Talking to Ola, though.
Ibu Bay!
Did I not warn him to stay away from that girl?
But I'm not They looked happy.
Happy?
Happiness is for those who forget where they stand.
Does he not know the king sees us as dirt under his feet?
But what if Ibu Bay wants to change that?
Change?
Change is not given.
It is taken.
And it bleeds.
Ebe.
What are you thinking about?
Eat corn.
I am not hungry.
It's about Ola, I think.
My father hates me without knowing me.
You are Umenka's son.
That's all he needs to know. I will not let her name bound me.
Then get ready to fight for her.
A man who wants the lioness must and should be ready to enter the forest. And I will.
Even if the forest is full of snakes.
That's the spirit.
Eat.
Eat.
If you wake her I fear.
I fear because my daughter is restless.
Restless because the wind is carrying a very strange song into her ear.
Your majesty.
Which song are you talking about? Song of an outcast son.
That is a dangerous talk.
Should I call the boy and warn him? No.
We do not have any business with the boy.
The warning should come from the root.
To the father.
Not the leaves. And if the root refuses?
Then I will be left with no other option than to uproot the tree.
Ameka.
I bring the king's word.
The king's word often comes with a tone.
Keep your son away from Allah.
Is she the king's only heir?
You know what you are.
Your son should know too.
I know what I am.
A man.
Tell him I will not chain my son's heart.
Then prepare for the king's anger.
Tell him anger does not frighten a man who has lived his entire life in exile.
>> They have warned you, father.
I know. He told me. And? And I told him nothing will stop me.
They are not just going to come. They will act.
Well, let them.
A heart that fears the storm would never cross the river.
Some storms drown people. Not those who know how to swim.
And I will swim for you, Allah.
Allah, why are you such a DISOBEDIENT CHILD?
DESPITE ALL my warnings, YOU ARE STILL SEEING IPUBI.
FATHER, I love him.
I won't give up on him now. Now, listen to me, because I am not going to warn you again.
I have already made a stand on this, and that stand is final.
Ezege is the one you are going to marry.
Father, please.
Please, father, UNDERSTAND.
>> I AM NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAND YOU.
I HAVE TOLD YOU WHAT I TOLD YOU, and I spoke as a king.
You will do what I say.
>> [snorts] >> Or you go ahead and do what you want to do, and then you will face the consequences. [music] You want to dare me?
I give up on my son, Jesus.
Forgive me.
Allah, we will go through this together.
We'll find a way to be together.
I don't know, Ubi.
My father is so angry.
I'm so scared. You don't need to be scared. I will protect you.
We'll face whatever comes next together, all right?
Omenka, your son has been causing a lot of trouble.
You have to WARN HIM.
TALK TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO LEAVE Ola alone.
Your majesty, >> [snorts] >> I will talk to him.
In your overall interest, and in the overall interest of your family, do just that.
I will do so, your majesty.
Ola, we can run away together and make a new life.
I don't know Eku Ubi.
My father's threats >> face them together. We will.
We just need leave this place, make a new life [music] and free from all of this.
Ichie Ikem, this problem between the king and Ola must stop.
It is tearing the village apart.
Well, I will speak to the king. Mhm. See if I can calm him down.
Ichie Ikem, time is running out.
The village is in the blink of chaos.
We need to act.
Eku Ubi, I have heard rumors.
The king is planning a drastic action against you Ola.
Then we will face it.
We will face it.
I will fight now.
We will fight for our love.
If you are fighting for your love, that's fine.
But you must be careful because the king should not be under his method.
Ola, I think we have made a mistake.
I do not feel the same way about you anymore. What?
Ebubé, what Why are you saying this?
I am sorry, Ola. I have been thinking about it.
I do not want to be with you again.
Ebubé, what wrong did I commit?
Tell me.
What What did I do?
You're just not the one I want to be with. Ebubé, >> [music] >> Ebubé, I found you loving you.
>> [music] >> And I found you loving you.
>> [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> What is wrong?
You look like someone who saw a ghost.
I made a mistake, Father.
I need to go back to Allah.
You made a mistake.
What is going on?
Tell me.
What happened?
I put her to a test and told her I don't need her anymore.
Now she's broken.
Ibebu, but you are playing with fire.
You need to be very, very careful.
Be very careful, my son.
You know whose son you are.
>> [sighs] >> Omar, I'm pregnant.
And Ibebu doesn't want me anymore.
Omar, what are you going to do about it?
I don't know.
I just want to be with you come back to me.
Okay, see. Don't worry. I'll go and talk to Ebuka, huh?
Everything will be fine. Are you sure?
>> Yes. Stop crying, please.
Let me go now. Let me go and talk to Ebuka. Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Are you here to pull my legs?
Did you not touch her?
Or are you trying to say that Ola slept with another man?
Say something, Ebuka.
What do you want me to say?
So, what Ola feared has finally happened.
You have become a rainmaker who sent her into an errand with salt on her head and sent the rain.
I cannot believe you are doing this to Ola.
You're going to pay for this.
Ola, in order to hide this shame, I suggest you accept Izzy G's hand in marriage.
See, with that, nobody will know about your pregnancy.
Ola, >> [music] >> I found true love in you.
>> [singing] [music] >> And I found true love in you.
>> [music] [singing] [music] >> My beautiful princess.
Why have you allowed sadness to beat your face like this?
What is it you want?
What troubles you?
You want You want yams?
You want cows?
Do you want the head of a human?
I'll provide it in a twinkle of an eye.
>> I do not want anything.
I heard that lunatic son of Osu left you.
No, I told you.
I told you he does not love you.
But you you never believed me.
Ezege, what do you want from me?
I've been singing it like song for a very long time now.
I want you to be my wife.
Are you sure you're ready?
I'm ready right now.
Or even tomorrow.
Or the next.
As soon as you ask me to bring my people, we'll be at your father's place tomorrow.
Everything is set.
Good.
It's fine.
Is that a yes?
Don't hurt me.
You You marry me?
>> [laughter] >> You marry me?
Oh my Sh- Sh- Sh- She's going to marry me.
ISIAGU IS GETTING MARRIED.
ISIAGU IS GETTING MARRIED.
>> [screaming] [laughter] >> SHE MARRIED ME.
IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE ME.
IT IS A beautiful day indeed.
Ola, today is your day.
Take this ring. Show us that man whom you told us earlier here that you are going to spend the rest of your life with.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> What is this?
As you can see Ola is marrying me. Huh?
And there's nothing you can do about it.
Ola Ola, you cannot do this. [music] Please.
You are marrying him already?
After all we had?
You left me.
You broke my heart. Ola, I I did not leave you. I left to save us.
Ebubem, listen.
No. No, no. Don't Don't tell me to listen.
You have made your choice.
Now I know I mean to you what my father meant to others, an outcast.
I wish you well.
Ebubem You can go, huh?
Ebubem, thank you. Ebubem, Ola Ola Ola My king.
And I find What is yours is yours. You should be able to know that.
A youthful exuberance will [music] always try to play a part.
But it changes nothing.
What is it? Eh?
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. Please forgive me.
>> I should forgive you when you have betrayed me. You chose to take over me.
>> No. No, I didn't choose him. I was forced to.
All that does not matter because you have made your best choice.
>> [music] >> You have to live with it.
>> No. No. No. No. Ebube.
Your highness.
You have to bring Ola back.
Or else I would I would take all the gifts I brought.
You can't just take my gifts and not accept my proposal.
Eze Gae, even as I am smelling threat under your presentation, I am going to ignore it for the reason best known to me.
The only thing I will promise you is that I will bring her back. I will send a god or gods to bring her back.
But you don't have to worry yourself.
My king.
I'm not threatening you.
But you can't say I shouldn't be worried.
I'm worried already because that Osu has taken my Ola away.
My king.
You have to get my wife back. Else I would take everything that I've brought.
Like I said, I am going to detail guards that will go and bring her back.
That is what I have said I will do as king.
You have to take it.
To save your own life, tell me the truth.
What did you do to my daughter?
Your majesty, I swear on my grandmother's grave I did not touch her.
I did not touch Ola. I heard a gunshot and when I ran to her I saw her already in a pool of blood. I did not touch her.
I didn't do it.
So, because my daughter chose Ezege over you, you have decided to kill her. IS THIS HOW HEARTLESS YOU ARE?
>> Your majesty, I did not do it. Your majesty, believe me. I heard someone shot her from the bush. I did not do I cannot hurt Ola. Shut up. SHUT UP.
GUARDS.
YOUR MAJESTY.
TAKE THIS SON OF A COW. FLOG HIM UNTIL HE CONFESSES. TAKE HIM OUT OF THE PALACE. I DID NOT do it. Your majesty, I did not do it. I did not HURT OLA. I DID NOT DO IT. DO IT, YOUR MAJESTY. I DID NOT DO IT. YOUR MAJESTY.
I DID NOT I DID NOT I DID NOT DO IT.
YOUR MAJESTY. KEEP FLOGGING HIM until he confesses. I did not do it. I did not do it. Son of a cow. Your highness.
How is she?
She's getting better. I was able to remove the bullet from her body.
I cleared the bleeding source.
Please, do whatever you can to make sure my daughter stands on her feet again.
Please. Yes, your majesty. I'm on it.
Please.
Please.
You came highly You came highly recommended. Do something.
Your majesty.
Please, have mercy on my son. Please, your majesty.
>> Old man, can you actually you have some guts?
Coming in here to make a demand.
Turn around.
Turn around and leave. Do not look back.
LEAVE, I SAID.
The instruction was very simple.
Keep flogging him until he confesses.
What are you doing here? Has he confessed?
Sorry, your majesty. He's not breathing again. I think he's dead.
You confirm him dead?
Yes, your majesty.
Take his remains to the river.
And throw him in there.
But, your majesty. Are you deaf?
I said something already.
Find a very big stone.
Tie it around his neck and throw his remains into the river.
Nobody must hear this.
Yes, your majesty. [music] Leave.
What are you doing outside?
>> [panting] >> Father.
I heard Abu's voice.
Did you touch him?
You're asking a king if you touched an outcast?
How dare you?
I am the king and I am not permitted to touch an outcast.
Father.
Father, where is the baby?
What have you done to him?
The healer The healer confirmed to me that she prepared you potent herb that you should be taking at intervals to help you recover your lost blood.
That is what you should be doing, not asking a lot of questions. Can you go back into the house and do what you were told?
>> [snorts] [sighs and gasps] >> You are not supposed to be moving around.
And where are you going?
What is wrong with this maiden?
Where is the baby?
Where is the baby?
Where is the baby?
He died while they were flogging him.
No.
No, it can't be.
>> [snorts] >> It can't be.
You are not listening to me.
Where Where is he, baby?
They did not allow us to take his body.
Your father ordered his body to be thrown into the river with a stone hung on his neck.
>> No. No.
>> [gasps] >> No.
No.
Come back.
I was drowning already. loving you >> [singing] [music] >> And I found your love.
>> [singing] >> in you.
Woka mama.
Father, you took a life.
Ebubedike didn't shoot me.
Someone else shot me from the bush.
The most beautiful part of this whole thing is that you are not going to disgrace me again.
That is it.
You are so heartless.
You scared because of our love.
I did not kill him.
Stop accusing me wrongly and do not speak to me in that manner ever again.
Go into your hut.
Forget about that boy.
He is not worthy of your tears.
YOU ARE A PRINCESS AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE agonizing over an outcast.
He has gone to where he came from. He was somebody's son.
Someone's only son.
You killed him.
And you have no remorse.
I father Bring back Ebubedike.
Else >> [snorts] >> I will never ever speak to you again.
You do not have what it takes to be making demands of me.
I have warned you already, Ola.
Stop pushing me to the wall.
Stop it.
Thank you for saving me.
I need to go back to my kingdom now.
The gods saved you, Ebube.
You shall not go back to your kingdom again.
Again?
What do you mean?
You will know when the time comes.
I I need to see Olaedo.
I want to be sure she survived. No.
Can't see her for now.
My father, he needs to know I am alive.
He will eventually know.
A man doesn't die because his power and guide is broken.
Okay. Can you help me send words to Olaedo?
No.
I'm trying to save you here.
You will go when the time comes.
Is it that you are sick in the HEAD OR SOMETHING?
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS NONSENSE?
SO, HAD IT BEEN SHE DID NOT SEE YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE KILLED YOURSELF BECAUSE OF AN OUTCAST?
WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS FORGETTING THE FACT THAT YOU ARE A PRINCESS?
THE BLOOD THAT IS FLOWING IN YOUR VEINS IS ROYAL BLOOD.
YOU WANT TO SHED THE ROYAL BLOOD BECAUSE OF AN OUTCAST?
LET THIS BE THE VERY LAST TIME THIS WILL HAPPEN. BECAUSE IF I DO HEAR THIS AGAIN, I'M GOING to deal with you severely.
AM I UNDERSTOOD?
DID I MAKE MYSELF [screaming] CLEAR?
YES.
REINVENT YOURSELF.
>> [snorts] >> OLA, REINVENT YOURSELF.
GET OUT OF MY SIGHT.
>> IF YOU DO NOT COME, YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF.
THE PRINCESS.
>> [snorts] >> SAY OLA, PLEASE. Don't do this to yourself.
They put me.
>> [snorts] >> I just want to join the puppy.
Don't speak like that. You're a very strong woman, and I know he would want you to be strong for him.
I can't I can't stay strong anymore.
I'm broken to the point that I don't want to leave anymore.
See, it's fine. Everything will be fine.
Don't [snorts] worry.
>> [music] >> I know that he in his next life you both are going to meet again.
That I am certain about.
Why would he die like that?
Why?
I'm talking to you, Ola. Everything [gasps] will be fine, okay?
You both will meet again.
>> [snorts] >> It's okay.
I want honey.
You want honey? Okay. Okay, I'll be back. Let me go and get it. Please don't cry, huh?
I'll be back.
>> [music] [music] [snorts] >> I'm coming to join you.
>> [cough] [sighs and gasps] [gasps] [cough and laughter] [gasps] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> How am I going to handle this matter?
How will I handle this?
Hey.
Have you seen the deep-rooted pain you brought to my family?
Have you seen it?
Majesty, I'm sorry.
Ola. [laughter] Ola, please wake up. Ola.
Ola.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> Ola, no, no.
Ola. Ola, please don't do this, Ola.
Ola. Ola. Ola. Ola, please wake up. Ola.
>> [laughter] >> Ola. Ola.
Ola.
Ola, wake up.
>> [laughter] >> Ola.
Ola.
Ola, PLEASE WAKE UP, OLA. OLA.
>> [screaming] >> OLA.
>> [laughter] >> OLA, PLEASE.
OLA. OLA. OLA, please answer me. WAKE UP. OLA.
OLA.
OLA.
>> [laughter] >> OLA, PLEASE. YOUR MAJESTY. OLA.
OLA, PLEASE.
PLEASE WAKE UP. OLA. [laughter] OLA. OLA, PLEASE.
PLEASE WAKE UP. OLA.
>> [laughter] >> OLA.
OLA.
OLA.
OLA.
OLA.
Your majesty.
Ola.
Ola, I'm here.
Ola.
I'm here.
Yeah. Ola.
Ola.
Ola.
I'm here.
I'm here.
Sorry.
I'm here.
Ola.
Ebere.
Your majesty.
>> [panting] >> Ola.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
>> [music] >> Is she able to move?
Igwe.
I am still going to organize another event before the central deity. Yes.
Where I am going to make this declaration. But I want to start from here.
That would be very good, your From today going forward, based on what has happened, no one shall be referred to as an osu in my land.
All of us are equal.
Thank you, your majesty. Is she awake now?
Igwe. I am sorry.
Sorry over the way I treated you and your family.
I was wallowing in ignorance then.
I know better now.
The declaration that I just made stands.
That era of referring to some people as osu is gone.
All of us are equal in this land from today going forward. Igwe.
Thank you, your majesty. Your majesty.
Your majesty.
So it is true that you want to give your daughter's hand [clears throat] in marriage to this to this osu? Listen to me, Eze Ke.
I just made a declaration that nobody must refer to any member of my land as an osu.
There is love in the air.
And I want you to allow that love see the light of day.
Your majesty, if I don't get all of her back, I will take back every single gift I have given to you.
Your majesty, you can't just accept my gift and not accept my proposal.
I am a messenger. I deserve respect.
>> The more I listen to you, the more it dawns on me that I actually overestimated you.
You are parading yourself as a strong man in my land, whereas you do not know anything.
If you are as intelligent as I had always believed, then you should have known that nobody should threaten a king with retrieving a gift already made to that king.
Whatever the king has seen does not go back.
Be very mindful of the kind of things you say before me, or I shall be left with no other option THAN TO THROW YOU OUT OF THIS PALACE.
I am a messenger.
NO ONE WILL LAY THEIR HANDS on me.
I AM A MESSENGER. GUARDS!
NO ONE GRAB THIS MAN. NO ONE. I AM I AM A MESSENGER. TAKE HIM YOU DON'T TOUCH A MESSENGER.
>> [screaming] >> THROW HIM OUT OF THIS PALACE.
AND IF HE MAKES THE MISTAKE OF COMING BACK, CUT HIM INTO PIECES OF meat and feed the hungry crocodiles with his remains.
You both come.
>> [snorts] >> Come forward to me.
Kneel before me.
Upon the face of truth, on the face of realization of the truth, I bless this union.
I declare you both man and wife.
And by the verdict of the gods, you both shall live in peace all the remaining days of your lives.
It shall be well with you on a camera card day.
It shall be well with you on all the market days.
It shall be well with you on a full market day.
>> [music] >> And it shall be well with you on market day.
>> [music] [music] >> Are you drunk?
Why are you standing in my way?
As I got me here to be paid for what I did for you.
You're mad.
You are very mad.
>> [snorts] >> You shot the wrong person.
And you are standing here asking me for payment.
You're a maniac.
IF YOU HAD CARRIED OUT THE JOB I ASKED YOU TO DO WELL ENOUGH, I wouldn't have been chased OUT OF THE PALACE and ridiculed the way the way I I was today.
Look, I'm not here for your banter.
I was just doing what you asked me to do for you. You asked me to take care of Ibebi.
And I did what I thought was necessary.
Necessary?
You're talking to me about necessary.
You were sup- You were supposed to kill Ibebi, and not Ola.
Ola is dead. You are useless.
Don't you dare call me that again.
Don't dare.
Or or what?
Or what, Akachi? What will you do?
Ezege, I will shoot you.
I will shoot you and feed your flesh to the birds of the air.
Don't you dare call me [music] useless.
You are useless.
Akachi, you are not only useless, but you are a useless son of a useless father.
Ezege, say that one more time.
>> [snorts] >> You are useless.
>> [laughter] >> You should I SAY YOU'RE USELESS?
HUH?
You think A GUN CAN KILL ME?
I AM EZEGE.
>> [screaming] >> GUNS HAVE NO effect on me.
Mhm?
The next time you try this again, it will be your life.
I'll kill all of you.
Think you can you can get to me?
>> [music] [music] [music] >> B Our friendship has gone beyond standing by the roadside.
When will you come to know my heart?
Oh.
When will you invite me to your heart?
Oka.
We will get to know each other's heart when the time is right. When will the time be right, Ebube?
When?
Oka, do not worry yourself.
The time will come soon.
>> [snorts] >> Uh >> [clears throat] >> come to think of it, will your parents buy the idea of you wanting to be friends with uh an outcast?
Ebube, my parents do not choose my friends for me.
I choose whom I want to be friends with.
Ebube, tell me, are you worried about Princess Ola?
Of course not.
I don't even want to take you away from her.
I just want you to be my friend.
That's all I seek, Ebube.
Oka, I have brought enough trouble to my family already, and I do not wish to bring in more. Neither do I want to bring more troubles your way. All [clears throat and cough] I'm saying Ebube.
I hope Princess Ola knows you are out here chasing other maidens.
Huh?
Anyways, do enjoy it while it lasts because soon enough you'll be sent back to the cage where you belong.
You are an osu.
Sheep garments.
Is that again enough?
Enough.
>> [snorts] >> Eze will be Please, don't listen to that arrogant fool. That is how he walks around this village looking for trouble where there is none.
Don't listen to him.
Inugo, [music] calm down.
Mhm?
So, as I was saying, if I am glad we are back together again.
I do not know what I would do without you.
Yes, Eze will be.
I'm never leaving you again. We're in this together.
Together forever, Ala.
Tomorrow you will become my wife. Mhm.
Yes.
We had a good fight for the future.
I love you.
I love you.
Why do you want me to do this? Ugo, I have seen you with Eze and I know you love him.
This is what I want you to do.
I want you to frame him with pregnancy on the day of their marriage.
That will make the king to reject him as a son-in-law.
And by so doing, you get I will be.
While I go for Ola, the princess.
It's a fair deal.
And in addition to that, in addition to you having I will be, I'll give you money.
I have money.
I'll give you.
Think about it, king.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Today is indeed a special day in this kingdom.
It is a special day, not just because my daughter is getting married, But it is special because for the first time in our living history we are enthroning love in our land.
And the love that we have found by the gods that love will be permanent.
Your majesty. Over to you.
Olayiwola Take this cup.
Show us that man in your life.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> If marriage do not hold Huh?
Eze you will not marry Ola.
What?
Who is this woman?
I do not know her.
Eze you don't know me?
We've been intimate for some time now.
And I'm carrying his child. That's a lie. That's a lie.
Eze I am carrying your child.
Ola, your majesty.
Eze Eze can you please start talking?
What is the meaning of this? Who is this woman? Your majesty, I do not know what she is talking about. I have no She is lying.
>> HOW DARE YOU DENY YOUR CHILD A WOMAN?
WATCH OUT. WATCH OUT. Eze Eze I know you and we've been intimate. You love me and I LOVE YOU. YOU PROMISED [screaming] TO MARRY ME.
EZE WHY ARE YOU LYING before the king?
Your majesty, I am not lying to you.
Believe me. I do not know what she is talking about. I How are YOU CARRYING MY CHILD? HOW? HOW?
>> YOU PROMISED ME LOVE. Why are you lying before everybody? Why are you denying >> Shut up everyone.
Elders and council Igwe Based on what has happened before us This marriage will no longer proceed.
I want to get to the root of what is going on.
We have to understand exactly what is going on.
Ola, you promised to love me.
>> Ola, I I do not know how I don't believe THIS IS LYING. YOU PROMISED TO LOVE ME.
I AM NOT LYING.
>> I DON'T know how I don't Ola.
YOU HAVE OLA, WHO ARE YOU? GET YOU HAVE TO MARRY ME.
YOUR MAJESTY, OLA.
I I I I DO [laughter] NOT know you. WHO ARE YOU? WHO SENT YOU?
>> DENYING ME. YOUR OWN CHILD.
NO. TELL TELL THEM OLA. YOUR MAJESTY.
WHO ARE YOU?
>> TO MARRY ME.
>> STOP. STOP. STOP. WHO ARE YOU? WHO ARE YOU?
WHY ARE YOU LYING? WHO WHO SENT YOU TO DO THIS?
EBUBAE.
I am your father.
I want you to tell me the truth.
Who is that girl?
She made mention of your name and even said you got her pregnant. Father, I I I I don't Okay, he's just a passerby friend. Who has been trying to come into my life and you know I cannot leave Olaedo to have anything to do with any other maiden in this kingdom. It is not possible.
I love her to that extent, father.
You love her to that extent.
>> [snorts] >> I don't even know what to believe anymore. Father, you must have to believe me because I am speaking the truth.
You are speaking the truth.
If I believe you as your father, how about the king?
And what will Ola say? Will they believe you?
>> [snorts] >> Ola, what is it? What is it? How could you, Ebubae? How could you?
To think I even respected you as my brother.
You believe that she goat, too?
Who?
Now you're calling the mother of your unborn child a she goat. So you didn't notice she was a she goat before he slept with her.
Why is no one believing me? Even you, Nma.
I do not know the taste of a woman. How can I impregnate someone I've not had anything to do with?
Well, I had a princess who's no longer interested in you. Congrats.
>> [singing and music] [music] >> Father, I need you to listen to the complicated stories from this young woman.
What complicated story?
Tell my father what you said to me.
Let's see how it makes sense to you.
My king, I didn't tell her anything, no.
I only told her that Ewuoma used to sneak into my hut every night. That's all. That was not what you said to me.
Why are you stressing me? I am pregnant.
I am carrying his child, and you keep stressing me.
Can you say the truth?
Ola, why are you forcing words into her mouth?
Why do you find it difficult to believe Ewuoma can do what he is accused him of?
Because she is a liar.
Can you do me a favor?
>> [music] >> Get out of my sight.
Father, Get out of my sight.
>> My king.
I I I I didn't say anything to her. I promise.
Get out.
My king.
I don't know why they keep lying against me. I am pregnant. I'm carrying his child.
My king.
What is your name?
My name is Oka.
And where are you from?
I am from Ihuve.
Oka, the women of Ihuve are not known to be liars. I am not lying. I am saying the truth. He got me pregnant.
Really? Yes. When?
Before the Ihuve festival.
>> [sighs] >> You said you want the king to punish him.
Yes. I want the king to punish him.
But do you love him?
I love him. He He promised to love me forever.
So why would you want the king to punish someone you claim to love so much?
Do not make a noise.
Who sent you?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU SERPENT?
WHO SENT YOU?
I I I I I I'm saying the truth. Nobody sent me. I don't know what you're talking about.
>> You think I'm joking? Just wait I slit your throat open. Who sent you?
I'll say the truth.
Ezeji Ezeji sent me. Ezeji sent me. He anything. to to to sell everything. He paid me.
Please don't kill me.
Please don't kill me.
Please don't [laughter] kill me.
>> [music] [gasps] [laughter] >> Are you mad?
No, no, no. ARE YOU ARE YOU MAD? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?
TO MAKE EVERYTHING WORK IN OUR FAVOR.
>> [snorts] >> But your majesty, she confessed.
>> [laughter] >> I am not interested in anything you want TO SAY.
GET OUT OF MY SIGHT.
AND LET NO HARM BEFALL HER. OKAY, your majesty.
Your majesty.
>> It's okay. It's okay.
>> [laughter] >> It's okay.
Everything is all right.
Nobody [snorts] is going to harm you.
Guards.
>> [laughter] [gasps] >> Take her.
And make sure she is fed properly.
And after that, take her to Ishioma Nkadi.
>> [laughter] [gasps] >> It's okay. Thank you, your highness.
>> [laughter and gasps] [music] >> And what are you doing here?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? LEAVE.
GO AND MEET WHOEVER IT IS THAT GOT YOU PREGNANT. GUARDS.
WHERE ARE THOSE GUARDS THAT BROUGHT HER HERE? COME AND TAKE HER AWAY. LEAVE.
I SAID LEAVE.
GUARDS.
>> OH, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.
>> [screaming] >> I GREET YOU, YOUR MAJESTY.
WHAT IS THAT YOUR NAME AGAIN?
MMA.
Did I not make it clear that I do not want any member of your family anywhere near this palace?
Your family members are full of deceit and lies.
Are you not aware?
My king said lied.
She finally accepted she isn't carrying my brother's child.
I am going to tie you up and let them flog you mercilessly for insisting ON THIS LIE.
GUARDS!
GUARDS!
RUN AFTER HER!
GRAB HER, YOU USELESS GUARD!
>> [music] >> OLA, YOU NEED TO STOP CRYING.
At least now we know the truth.
All we need to do is find a way to let the king know.
Have you told the Chief Ukello?
No, no, no, no. I haven't. You have to tell him. My father listens to him.
Okay, don't worry. I'll go by morning to tell him. Okay.
Um what if the young woman runs away?
She will not dare.
I already told the guards to be on guard and watch our way. So don't worry, everything will be fine.
Okay?
Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow. Okay.
All right. All right.
As I have said earlier, your highness, I have come to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage, Ola.
Ogonnia, this is not the best time to be talking about marriage.
My daughter, Ola, has not been feeling okay.
Something has been wrong.
That is of concern to me, and it should be of concern to you.
Uh Your Highness, I will wait. Ola, you do not have to wait.
Ola, please. I'll get married to you today, tomorrow. Ola, If you wish to.
>> Ola, you don't have to do this, please.
Please. I I did not do it. Believe me, I did not do it. That meeting is lying.
I didn't do it. You don't have to marry this man, please. I am sorry, Ebube.
At this moment, I just want some peace.
I want to go to a place that I can forget all the lies.
>> I I have never lied to you, and I will never lie to you. Please, believe me. My king, tell her I did not do it.
She's lying. Eh.
I am sorry.
Father, I'll get married to Ogonnia.
Thank you very much, Ola.
Thank you.
In that case, I need you to leave and go and prepare.
Prepare and let me know when you are coming with your people. I will accept your drinks.
You go.
Ola.
Ola.
Ola, believe me. Ola, Ola, please. You don't have to do this. Please, but Ola, Ola.
I don't know why this man is entering my palace.
Ogonnia, I do not like you, Ogonnia.
Ola, don't worry.
As you have already confirmed that we should go ahead and accept all the things he has brought.
Take this cup from my hand.
Show us that man you have decided to spend the remaining days of your life with as his wife.
>> [laughter] >> My king, I'm sorry. Please forgive me.
>> [laughter and gasps] >> It's not my intention.
It was Ezege. Ezege made me do it.
He promised me money and protection.
He said if >> [laughter] >> if if I destroy the marriage between Ola and Ebube, he's going to give me money and he's going to protect me. Please forgive me, my I do not daughter of a cow. I'm sorry.
No, he promised you and that is the reason you did this.
Ezege will be made to face the consequences of his action.
Everybody >> [laughter] >> You have been wronged.
But I am very much ashamed.
Very much ashamed of what happened.
Thank you, Your Majesty. I love Ola so much and I will do everything possible to make things right again.
Thank you.
>> [laughter] >> I should have believed you.
>> [snorts] [snorts] >> Guards.
My king.
>> [laughter] >> This maiden should be locked up.
Move her immediately.
And then I need you to go and get Ezege because he has to start the process of facing his punishment.
What are you still doing here?
I said you should go and bring Ezege to start the process of facing his punishment. My king, we're so happy that he was shot dead.
I am not surprised.
We live in a land of justice where evil will always be punished.
Evil doers may go free in all kingdoms on earth, but no evil doer will ever go free in this kingdom where I rule.
Based on this, I am going to bless this union so that evil, no matter where they are firing from, cannot stand between the love you both share.
Come to me.
Give me your hands.
Kneel before me.
As the king of this kingdom, I bless this union.
Evil will not triumph over you.
You are going to live in peace.
And this union will stand the test of time.
It shall be well with you on a cake market day.
It shall be well with you on Orie market day.
It shall be well with you on Afor market day.
And it shall be well with you on Nkwo market day.
As the king of this land, I declare you both husband and wife.
You may rise.
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