the story talks about the betrayal from family, self-will to survive, greediness. this is the story of Nkemdilim a slave survivor who watched her friends being thrown into the ocean and others being shut to death just because they were tired from working. she faced life and death but she chose to survive, for her mother who was in grievance the day she was forcefully taken by the white masters. shw watched as her father took the money from the white money , the joy in his face all because she is a female child whom he believes will not yield to anything positive in the future. but rather cooking and giving birth for a man.