Biyi Bandele

Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die.

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandiwe Newton (Crash) star in this chronicle of family ties and civil war set in Nigeria in the 1960s. The feature debut from celebrated Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele.