Osifo Egie and Ndidi Amerigo meet briefly as teenagers through a family friendship. But they do not like each other and their lives take very different directions. Ndidi is from a wealthy background and is about to leave for England to study. Osifo has not completed his education and is soon to start work as a clerk. By the time fate brings them together again each of them has experienced a great deal. But it seems at first that the unhappiness they have both suffered may keep them apart.