In 1911, Dr. Oguntola Sapara's attempt to marry under English law collides with native custom, leading to a court case that redefined love, law, and legitimacy in colonial Lagos.

In 1901, Samuel John, an educated customs officer, and his wife, Wayin, once a housegirl under the powerful Jumbo family, find their love tested as they struggle against the injustice of the Native House Rule Ordinance.

In 1888, the cruel neglect of an elderly woman at Lagos’s Colonial Hospital ends in tragedy, igniting public fury and a movement that would shape the future of healthcare in Nigeria.