The story is all about reality and fiction of two women Agnes and Angela her daughter. Agnes endure problems during her upbringing in her aunty place and even during her marriage for 20 years. Married at the age of 20 her husband treated her like a toddler.she could be beaten whenever they had a miss understanding between themselves she had no one to defend her . Blessed with 5 children in a poor background she does her best to make sure her children are well provided with all the basic needs. His husband Francis never worked at not that he had any kind of disability noo...all he wanted was to place more burden in her wife. we find that the same problem reoccurring in her daughter's life Angela having study in a rural area school far from her parents she lives in her aunty who mistreated her with all the effort in school she happens to join a univesity to parsue her dream career so as to help her family from the poverty they are facing.