Impressed by true life occasions, within the Oyo Empire within the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of magnificence and sexual need on the very night he's set to die in an effort to fulfil his lifelong debt of formality suicide to accompany the lifeless Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from an important generational and religious transaction. This units in movement a collection of catastrophic penalties, in a spell-binding movie of feelings, humour, and tragic position reversals that places historic beliefs and customs on trial in an ever more and more post-modern and Western world.
