montayo is a strong-willed maiden, an only child of a certain high chief who sets great store by principle and a doting mother who is unapologetically impulsive by nature.

With their separate and opposing good intentions about their daughter, there is much need for insight which holds the vital key to a harmonious resolution. Unfortunately however, the very personification of insight in the situation is spurned by both parties and the poor lass is fated to fight all by herself in defense of her self-esteem and self-reliance.

Set in the 1940’s in a certain big town and a distant smaller one fictionally named Oroki and Arigbajo respectively, the play embodies an interesting mix of the aristocracy, proletariat, social convention and incipient modernism of that period south and west of the River Niger and north of the Bight of Benin.

A purely social and subtly spiritual drama written in a curious cross format for stage or screen or, indeed, any performance media.