Ridha is at the ashes of his house looking sad then he remembers the voice of his wife and children crying for help then he couldn't hear them again ,all of his family;wife and children were dead .Apart from his eldest son Mwangeka who is always abroad at work with his wife and child .He the remembers his daughter sarah who was in high school and always aspired to become a lawyer ;everytime when she was from school they would talk about how Kenya got independence(kenya was colonial) anything about law and politics you would ask sarah and answer, she would always play law plays with her friends, think of how she would one day vote but she was no more to participate on the elections on day .All this while Ridhaa was remembering this while crying.He then remembered her lovely wife ."My husband ,"he remembered"when will you ever stop thinking a whole doctor like you always thinking and stress ,when did a man ever change his destiny?".He answered "why do you always mind it my business ,stop it ".Ridha didn't know that was the last time he wont hear his wife's sound .He wished he could use all the time in the world and cherish his wife but sadly she was no more .Ridhaa recalled of how his wife would complain about their neighbour Mark about land issues he even remembered of how her wife warned her that if anything would happen to them one day Mark would be responsible .Mark was always interested on his land ever since and maybe he was the one that causes fire on his house which caused a tragic loss off his loved ones .He saw the cloud had started to change because it was about to rain so he picked up the remaining ashes and kept it in a container which would always remind him of his family .He had no where to sleep because everything was swept away by fire ,he kept it at the kitchen place which was always separate,and slept tje whole night close to his family's ashes .Election time was on and campaign was between a woman Marie and Martin .Whereby they were competing for a area.The campaign season was over and a woman was elected ,Marie won .The chauvinistic men were complaining that they can't be ruled by a woman ,but it had already happened Marie won and she became their leader.War began by those who did not concede the elections they started stealing from those who voted for marie and also did the killings gun shots was everywhere and fights people started running for their lives .They knew that if marie was on the seat women would startt schooling and at their time only men went to school ,that women would become more superior than them .They wouldnt allow that to happen while they were still there and alive .Lorries of police officers and tear gas was sent all over the place to stop the war and the youths who were supporting mark said that the wouldn't stop at any cost.Ridha stood with serious pains his hands back and his backbone had curved with pains ,his eyes looking over the sky of smokes.He turned around looking at fire on his palatial house .Now Ridha remembers blinking of his left eye for two consecutive weeks his wall clock fell down without him knowing the reason of why the clock fell down .He remembers the voices and crying of crows at the rooftops of his house .The cries that symbolized the crying on the last day of losing his family.He surrendered in tears and let the tears control him .He went back to his burnt house and near the place which used to be the sitting room he remembers his wife ,his two kids ,daughter in law and his grandson .He remembered again how sarah on political topics nobody could ever defeat her .He exclaims and cries ,"My whole properties and family perish on one day ...".Her daughter sarah had left this world even without her maturing first and know life and achieve all her dreams .Ridha couldn't answer all the questions he had on his mind ,he wish for this kind of life .He didn't whish for life to become hard the way it was at that moment .He did not expect life to be that way even after staying in that place for ten decades whereby the were now given notices to vacate those premises which they had inherited from their parents .Now Ridha wished she would call his wife and talk to her but his mind reminded him that she had left the world never to come back .He did not know he had stand there for how long he want and sat besides his family ashes and he fell asleep. He recalls in his sleep how the headline news ten years ago ,he listened to it as if he was listening at that moment ,the news was how tractors were sent to demolish houses that were along the road that it was intended to expand the road and un luckily his houses were among the selected and Ridha was watching on tv on how his houses were being demolished and the way he had used milkions of money to build them and till now the government had never taken action on compensating them and roads had never been made .Despite of that shock he never kept that loss in his mind but then this one shock had hit him hard again