Modesinuola Ogundiwin

Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in the form of now-distant friends and loves from her youth. Simultaneously, Septimus, a young soldier, is haunted by his own memories of the horrors he has witnessed and endured. As the perspectives traverse past and present, across the bourgeois class and those too easily forgotten by society, a delicate portrait of contemporary Nigeria emerges.

What started out as a fun night at a prom after party in 2005, quickly turns into Ife’s worst nightmare. She carries a dark secret from that night into adulthood that continues to plague her everyday life.