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[upbeat music plays]
[woman in Pidgin] I don't have time for, give me this thing!
[man in Pidgin] I said you should keep the change.
Keep the change!
[scoffs]
You are not used to people giving you things. [chuckles]
-[in Pidgin] Are you serious? -[in Pidgin] I am serious.
[in Yoruba] I said, I love you! I love you--
-[music stops abruptly] -[comic note plays]
[in Yoruba] Are you cursed?
Ahn-ahn! What have I done? [in Pidgin] Why did you slap me?
-[in Pidgin] What did you not do? -[in Pidgin] Why did you slap my face?
[in Yoruba] You wanted to touch me inappropriately
because of 440 naira?
Touch you? [in Pidgin] I was just going to hug you
because I thought we had already started dating.
-[in Yoruba] Help me lift my wares. -[dog barks]
I have children at home.
Don't try it again. Ah!
[in Yoruba] Don't throw my wares away.
I will not [in Yoruba] throw your wares away.
I will not [in Yoruba] "throw your wares away."
I will [in Yoruba] help you place it on your head.
-[in Yoruba] Take your money. -Ah! You don't want the money?
[in Pidgin] Take your money. I'll come back for my balance.
I'll take it!
-I'll take it! -[in Yoruba] For wasting my time,
God will waste your time all your life.
[scoffs]
[in Yoruba] You are a jobless person.
[in Pidgin] I'll come back for my change, do you hear? Idiot!
-[man in Yoruba] You are an ingrate! -You are an accursed being.
You are an ingrate.
[dog barks]
-[in Pidgin] Don't cross-- -[in Yoruba] Let me have that bread.
-Ah, won't you sell-- -[in Yoruba] Give me that bread!
What have I done? [splutters] Why are you collecting the bread from me?
[in Pidgin] No problem.
Let us end the…
[comical tone plays]
[in Yoruba] Take your bread from me.
-Am I the one you want to give sacrifice? -[in Ebira] Take it.
God punish that bread!
-[in Ebira] Take it. -[Pidgin] Take what?
[in Pidgin] I'm saying it's a gift.
[scoffs] Ha!
[in Yoruba] Accursed being. God will waste your time just like you wasted mine.
God saved you!
-[advertising wares] Fine butter bread! -Do you hear me? God saved you!
Don’t pass this road again!
-[car honks] -Don’t pass this road.
Nonsense!
[woman in distance] Todowede's butter bread!
Morning, ma!
Good morning, ma.
-[woman] Well done, sir. -Good morning, ma.
I heard your conversation with the bread seller.
No, I'm not the one.
She is the one that said [spluttering]
-Iskilu! -Yes, ma?
Was that why you were employed?
-No, ma. -To, to be constituting nuisance.
No, ma. It’s her fault.
So I, she… [spluttering]
One more strike.
I'm sorry, ma.
One more strike and you're just, you're gone.
I will not strike.
When em… Sunmi arrives,
tell him to join me at the shop.
Okay, ma. Okay, ma.
Hmm. [tuts] Iskilu.
-Mama. -[upbeat music playing]
One more strike.
I will not strike. I will not strike, ma.
Ma, I will not strike. It’s the devil’s handiwork.
The devil did it.
["Hated On" by Big Sheff playing ]…
[Iskilu] Fire down! Fire down!
Ha! Number one! Number one!
Any other boss is a counterfeit! [chuckles]
-Isky boy! -Any other boss is a counterfeit!
I've been waiting since, wondering when my boss will come.
When will boss Sunmi come? [chuckles]
And then you drove in.
-My boss. -Here you go.
[in Yoruba] Ah! What’s this now?
Ah, no problem. I’ll take it. [chuckles]
Normally, I'll complain but I know you'll still--
I know that's not what you really want.
-Let me get you something. -Ha!
Ah! For me?
[Yoruba] It's a lie, it can't be for me.
It cannot be for me. [chuckles] It can…
Ha!
Am I the owner?
[singing] ♪ Live long like Methuselah ♪ Yes, sir!
Guy, you play too much.
-You are the best, sir. [laughs] -Is mama in?
[in Pidgin] No, she’s not in. She has gone to the shop.
Are you just coming back from the club since yesterday?
Bro, last night was mad lit, bro.
Eh! [in Yoruba] It was mad lit?
[laughing] [in Pidgin] What does that mean, please?
It means it was fun, do you dig?
It was fun. [in Yoruba] I dig. Yes, I dig.
-Well done, my boss. -See, eh, listen.
You know what you're gonna do for me?
Yes sir. Anything for you.
My baby, Lisa, yeah?
-Okay. -You're going to clean her up, alright?
-I will clean it. -Clean the inside, clean the outside.
Ah, I will even clean the middle side.
Make sure she's shinning, bro.
I will use my tongue to clean it.
I'm coming for it.
[phone beeps]
[hisses]
[female voice] Omolara, [chuckles]
I am tired.
He's a nuisance and a no-good.
[Omolara] Mommy, just give him another year. I'm sure he will change.
He cannot change! [tuts] He cannot change.
I haven't seen him for three days. My own son, three days!
I do not see him before I go to bed…
I do not lay my eyes on him in the morning before I leave for work!
I am losing my patience.
You know what? I'll buy him a ticket and have him come over.
And then I'll talk some sense.
You want to, hmm
You want to buy him a ticket.
Have you forgotten what happened two years ago, Omolara?
You got him a ticket,
he left this country for three weeks and you never saw him.
The boy is from hell!
How did I get it so wrong with him?
What did I do to make you right? Why [splutters]
Why is it that with Sunmi it is all way, way, way, way off track?!
Hello?
-Ma, did you call me? -[sighs]
-Aunty Agy. -Ma?
Have you seen my son?
Yes. Yes, I've seen him, I saw him like…
Tsk! That late afternoon time because I served him food.
-So, I think he's still around. -[sighs]
Okay.
Thank you.
[singing Usher's "You Make Me Wanna"] ♪ You make me wanna leave one I'm with ♪
♪ Start a new relationship ♪
♪ With you, this is what you do ♪
-[door opens] -♪ Think about… ♪
Come on, now!
Mommy, come on! You need to start learning how to knock. What if…
What if, what?
You were naked?
I gave you a bath till you were eleven years old. So I've seen enough of you.
Please, you haven't seen this! This package has been upgraded.
[in Yoruba] Shut up!
Save the bragging for your…
for your fellow nuisance.
[sighs]
Please, what do you want?
I haven't seen you in three days. Care to tell me where you've been?
[tuts] I've been busy.
Ha! [chuckles]
My son has been busy!
Praise the Lord!
My son has been busy. [in Yoruba] Thank you God!
My Lord!
Care to tell me what has kept you busy?
Well… [inhales]
I've been running some ish with my peeps, you know,
getting, getting things done.
Peeps? With your ish? Run ish?
Okay, that's the name of the company,
or the business you do.
Oh! Or the new course.
[shouts] What in the world is wrong with you?
What is the meaning of "run ish"?
[tuts]
Ha!
Your father will be turning in his grave.
I have told you not to
-Multiple times! -bring my dad into this.
-[yelling] Do not interrupt me -Why are you bringing him into this?
when I'm talking to you!
Don't you dare!
[tense music plays]
Look at your sister!
Look at her!
Look at your sister!
I've told you, why would you keep on comparing us, though?
-Why do you keep on comparing us! -Yes, you can never be like her!
I am not her! I am not her!
You do not have anything it takes to be like her!
-Just try and be less her! -[scoffs]
And stop being an embodiment, this embodiment of disaster!
I have counselled!
I have, I have prayed! Eh!
I have shouted!
I'm still shouting!
But you are like a brick wall.
See, Mommy,
you're gonna give yourself a migraine.
What do you want? Are you looking for something?
Did you lose something? Are you bored? What is it?
[huffs]
Hey.
Hmm.
[mobile phone rings]
Your school…
[tense music plays]
wrote me. They said they haven't seen you this semester.
[smacks lips] All that is your fault.
I already told you from the jump, I do not want to do that course.
What's wrong with you?
-[snickers] -Three courses!
-First it was Engineering. -I told you it was too hard.
Yes. Second it was Public…
-I told you, -International Relations
I told you that one was too boring!
-I told you! -Exactly!
Now it is Kinetics.
I did it for you, though!
I know you did it for me! You are always doing it for me!
Always for me! Now, Kusimi Sunmi Smart-Cole,
tell me exactly what you love and what you want!
I've told you already.
I want to go to the University of Legon!
You don't want to send me to Rutgers, let me go to Legon,
let me get out of your house!
Ha.
[in Yoruba] Someone help me! Who’s home?!
-[in Pidgin] Oh please. -Ha.
[in Yoruba] Or…
did he hit his head and I didn’t notice?
Eh, my son?
Did you hit your head on the floor…
You're the one that would know that.
and nobody told me?
Because I'm begining to think that,
you are out of your mind to think that I will spend another penny
on your education!
-Mm-hmm? -Yes!
And I'm the one that's out of my mind.
See if you don't want to pay, it's fine please.
Just talk, that's all.
Tsk, please.
-It's fine. -Give it to me!
Can you give me my phone?
Ahn-ahn?
Or?
[hisses] Mommy, please give me my phone.
My friends are calling me, we're supposed to--
Tell them that you're not coming!
If you dare me, and you leave this house,
better remain there.
Let me see how you're going to live, survive without all this luxury.
Can you give me my phone?
Give me my phone, man! This is 2020! [in Pidgin] How could you seize my phone?
As in, I'm not, [splutters] I'm not a kid! Give me my phone!
Otherwise?
No. Otherwise?
I didn't say anything. If you want to slap me again, slap me.
[in Pidgin] Don't start asking me questions…
[in Yoruba] You good-for-nothing child.
Thank you.
[tuts]
[hisses]
[long hiss]
[door slams]
[in Pidgin] She actually slapped me.
[in Pidgin] Quickly come inside.
[whispering] You are welcome.
-[female voice whispers] -[fuji music playing]
[laughing, hailing]
[hailing softly]
["Turn Up" by Qdot playing]
-[loud music plays in the background] -[faintly] What is this?
[loud music continues in the background]
[sighs deeply]
[hisses]
This is too much noise.
[hisses]
Aunty Agy.
I'm so sorry, I know it's late but em…
are the Layole's having a party again?
You are not here? You, you went home?
Alright, I'm so sorry, I'm sorry. Okay.
[hisses] [sighs]
Ahn-ahn!
[party music continues faintly]
["Turn Up" by Qdot continues]
[man] Everybody freeze!
[whimpering, indistinct chatter]
-[Iskilu] Move it! Move it! -[voices complaining]
[Iskilu] No, Officer, I'm telling them to move. Everybody, move it!
[Sunmi] Mommy, can you make them stop?
-[Iskilu] Everybody, move it! -Mom, can you make them stop?
-[officer 1] Is that everybody? -[officer 2] That's all, sir.
-[officer 2] Okay, okay, -[voices complaining]
-[officer 1] Yes, yes? -No sir, we're together.
-[officer 1] This way! -[indistinct chatter]
-[Iskilu] Yes. -Follow me, sir.
It's everybody.
-[Sunmi] Wait, wait, wait. -[Iskilu in Yoruba] I'm doomed!
[Iskilu] I'm the CSO, Isky.
-[officer1] Come and write your statement. -Mommy!
[Iskilu pleading] Officer, Officer!
-Officer, I'm with you. -[officer 1] Hello?
As you were coming, I was telling them to move it,
single file.
[Sunmi] Mom, you can stop them. This is embarrassing.
[Iskilu] I'm the CSO! I'm in your unit! We're together, Officer.
Officer, we're together.
[officer 2] Come on, move it.
Esprit de corps, Officer, esprit de corps.
-[officer 2] Which corps? [laughs] -[Iskilu] Help me!
-Which corps? -Ah Officer, please. I have children.
-[officer1] Lift him up! Lift him up! -[Iskilu] Ah, help me please.
[in Pidgin] I am not a part of them. I am just the security man.
So, have you had time to look through the franchise em, document?
[Omolara] Mommy, you know why I called.
Um? I do?
No, I don't. Feel free to share.
He's been locked up for two days, Mom.
[chuckles]
Only two days?
Ah, what about those who have been locked up for weeks?
[in Yoruba] They have parents too. Prisoners are coping. They're coping.
They are really trying.
[Omolara in Yoruba] Please…
[in English] Look Mom, I get it. What he did was way out of line.
No, no, no. This is the last straw.
Last straw!
Heaven forbid that I birthed a child who will not respect me, Omolara.
Mommy, Sunmi is just exhibiting juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile delinquent what?
That's what you exhibit when you're in your teens, when you're 14.
Sunmi is 24… What am I even saying? Twenty-five in fact.
[Omolara] Still, Mommy, please let me get him off your hands.
He will stay with me. I will watch him, I promise.
[in Yoruba] Never ever!
Concentrate on your new husband and your unborn baby.
As for me and that young man…
Omolara,
we are at war!
[plates clatter]
[in Pidgin] Hey, Sunmi is back.
Sunmi!
Oh, oh! [in Igbo] Sorry. See your body, see your face, Sunmi.
See, I made sweet pepper soup, sweet one.
[in Pidgin] Should I bring you some?
-Hmm? -Aunty Agy, can I just get a drink?
Please?
Okay, which one do you want, packaged juice or fresh one that is squeezed?
-Hmm? -Anyone is fine.
Thank you.
[scoffs]
[calming him silently]
You stink.
Hmm! Hmm!
You stink!
You shouldn't have a shower, go have a bath!
Scrub yourself from head to toe.
-Aunty Agy, can you-- -[pleading softly for peace]
Mmh.
And don't forget, add em,
kongi soap to it too, okoto!
[quiet pleading continues]
[Sunmi] It's cool, it's cool.
[Aunty Agy] I'll bring your juice for you, okay? Sorry.
[Aunty Agy] Sorry.
Smellos!
[woman] They sacked you?
[in Yoruba] Can you see that you’re doomed? Look here!
-[Iskilu] Sunmi! -[security man] Hello? Hello?
-They sacked you. Don't push… -[in Pidgin] I'm calling my friend.
-Don't push him like that. -Sunmi!
-They sacked you?
Who do I… [in Yoruba] I'm done for. [in Pidgin] It seems he is serious.
[sarcastically in Yoruba] No, he's not serious, he is doing comedy.
You are so dumb, you are senseless and daft.
You are done for. Didn’t I warn you?
[snivels]
-No problem. -Madam sacked me?
[in Yoruba] I’ll come back to you.
-[in Yoruba] Em, em, my brother. -Yes?
-I apologize. -Yes?
Em sorry, [in Pidgin] I will go in alone to see the madam,
without him. Remove him. [in Yoruba] Move there! [tuts]
-You, step aside! Step aside! -Come on, step aside!
-[in Pidgin] I alone, -Yeah?
will go and meet madam.
It's okay. That means em, I will give you a form to fill.
[hisses]
No, what kind of dirty, stupid, stinking love is that now?
Love that you now used to lock me in a prison for two days!
[in Pidgin] No, think about it.
Aunty Agy, if you see the mosquitoes in that place!
Hmm! [hisses]
Hmm. Tsk.
Militant mosquitoes!
If not for one police officer that was nice enough
to put me at the back of the counter,
I'd have probably died of,
died of mosquito bites.
Your mother, your mother is not happy with you.
She's not happy with you.
Give me that thing.
She's not happy with you.
Ah I mean, what did I ever do to her?
Aunty Agy, please make it make sense to me, what does she want from me?
I stay away from her way.
I don't disturb her.
I try my best to avoid her. The only thing that brings us together is,
is this allowance that she gives me.
And still she wants to kill me.
Even that is five times my salary so…
Are you…
Are you being serious?
She pays you that little?
-[scoffs] -Can you see?
How does she expect you to survive?
I manage and I manage well.
[in Pidgin] I am not extravagant like you that shows off all over town.
Aunty Agy, let's call it what it is.
Don't do any blind loyalty.
That woman is stingy.
A family woman like you, see what she's paying you.
[chuckles] Sunmi,
[in Pidgin] your mother has done a lot for me.
She has really tried for me. You see my children?
Their school fees, everything, she's the one that takes care of it.
Even that my small house that I build in Ota, it's your mother that helped me.
[hisses in frustration]
See, I hate her.
[in Igbo] Stop it! Don't talk like that.
[hisses] Aunty Agy, I'm being serious. I hate her.
How will you say such nonsense?
You have frustrated your mother.
You have made her unhappy. You have disappointed her.
Everything, you have done it.
Yet you're here saying that you hate her. You shouldn't say such nonsense.
Instead of you to think of how you're going to settle with her,
so that everybody will be okay and happy,
you are saying you hate your mother.
-Don't talk like that. -Aunty Agy.
What that woman wants, eh?
What will make her happy,
is if I get out of her house.
So, she should just allow me, let me go.
Where will you go?
I will go to my sister's place.
At least when I get there, I know that they will treat me with love
and care
and affection.
She should just give me my passport let me go.
[chuckles]
Hey!
Sunmi.
[in Pidgin] It's okay. Go and take your bath.
[chuckles]
[laighing] Aunty Agy, behave now. Do I really smell that bad?
Your body smells like galos.
Hmm? [in Pidgin] Go and take your bath.
Come on, let's hug it out.
[in Igbo] Get away! [in Pidgin] Go away! Nonsense boy.
[laughing] It's not that bad.
[in Pidgin] You want to rub your smelly armpit on me.
[somber music plays]
[mom] Button up.
Sunmi!
I'm tired of…
-all this-- -I'm also tired
-to be honest-- -Please will you just shush
and let me speak!
I asked for this meeting. I called for it.
So please let me get my point across.
I'm not going to beat myself up asking myself if
I raised you right or where I went wrong raising you.
No, no, no, I will not!
Because I know I did a fine job!
You lacked nothing.
You were well catered for.
Well provided for.
You had equal opportunities with your sister.
So, whatever it is you're going through is really, really, really, really…
is up to you!
All I want to know is your plan.
My plan…
Yes, your plan.
Oh!
Do you think I'm going to continue to cater to your needs?
Don't you have a business plan or something?
Look mom, I don't know if this is another trick question
or one of these things you are trying to--
Sunmisola Smart-Cole, what is tricky about what I'm asking you?
You either have a plan,
tell it or you don't!
I don't have a plan right now! I can't think of anything.
I, I don't have any ready-made plan but,
but at the end of the day, I have a trust fund.
I have a trust fund so I don't have to work a day in my life.
Yes, and you can't access it until you are 32!
So between now and then
how do you intend to fend for yourself?
[tense music plays]
Look Mama, what is really going on, though? Like, what is going on?
What is this?
Apart from the allowance that you give me, do I ask you for anything else?
No! Of course you don't.
And that's because you sell some stories to your sister, Lara
to make her create another extra allowance for you.
Let me ask you, Sunmi.
Don't you want to be responsible at all?
Wait, responsibility is relative, Mama!
Responsibility is relative! I mean, come on now. Come on, give me some credit!
Do I do drugs? No!
-Mm-hmm? -I have not impregnated any body.
I have no baby-mamas.
Do I have unprotected sex? No, I mean, no, not all the time.
What else do you want me to do?
We should clap for you.
-Yes, maybe. -Clap for you!
I will… in fact, I will, I'm so clapping for you.
Really?
-Sunmisola? -Yes?
Ah.
Hmm.
You know what?
I don't want to trade words with you.
Just tell me your plan.
Fine.
I'm done thinking.
And I want to move.
Good plan.
Sister Lara has said that I can come. So I'm just gonna…
[in Yoruba] Never, ever!
[chuckles] [in Yoruba] Never!
The heavens forbid. Even the earth forbids it!
You!
You want to go and destroy Lara's home
with your, with your…
You want to be a liability.
I'm not going to be a liability and is it not Lara? She's my sister.
She's my sister. Mommy, please. You know what, let's just stop this.
So you want to go to her house?
No! Give me my passport. Give me my passport
and just give me two days. I will be out of your space.
Eh, you will now go to Lara's place, eating her food, spending her money,
partying! Not wanting to work!
Everything, work! Everything, work! What if I don't have to work?
What if I wasn't destined to work?
-Ah! -Is it by force?
My dad left a huge inheritance.
What if I'm just supposed to chill?
What is the problem with that?
Your dad left enough money for you.
For you, right?
What are you going to leave for your own children?
What if I don't want to have children? How about that?
Hey! [in Yoruba] The worst has happened to me!
Sunmi!
Yes?
[smacks lips] [in Yoruba] I have been wrecked!
But you know what? [claps]
Fine!
You want to move, right?
To Lara's place.
No problem.
I will tell Ada to get your passport across to you.
Thank you very much.
Is that all?
Aunty Agy!
I'm heading out.
Hey!
[door closes]
Hey!
Ah!
[huffs]
Ma, I'm sorry for all the pain.
I know you have lost confidence in me.
But
I'm ready to do whatever I can
[security man] There's no way he can come back to work here.
[Iskilu] to make it up to you.
Whatever I can.
Ma, I will be the best security man in the whole wide world.
Even SWAT in the US will not…
[security man] He's fired. Let him remain fired.
He has been relieved. He should remain
-Ha, Aunty Agy! -[security man] relieved.
-[Aunty Agy] Focus on him. -World best! [chuckles]
My mommy! [chuckles] Well done, ma. I've missed you a lot.
Every time I'm just dreaming about you
left, right and center. [chuckling] How's it?
-Isky? -Yes, ma.
-[dog barks] -You know
that madam has relieved you of your duties.
-Long time ago. -Um,
[in Pidgin] this man told me yesterday, I didn't even believe him.
But I was wondering why she would relieve me of my duty.
Because I'm even angry I saw my uniform on him.
-I feel like tearing it. -Hey, hey!
I'm angry.
Aunty Agy, what can we do please? Help me.
-Isky? -Yes, ma.
You know what you're going to do now?
Anything! Anything!
[in Pidgin] Firstly, you will leave.
You will leave the compound now.
Then you will come back in three months.
Ha!
[in Pidgin] When he decides on either staying
or not staying on…
-I can never say I will not do again. -Eh! [in Yoruba] That won't work.
It can't work.
-I can never say that I won't do again. -Ah, manager help me.
Hello? Hello? Hello, stand up!
Help me. Ah, I will beg with anything.
[in Pidgin, Yoruba] I know I fucked up.
-[Iskilu] My wife will kill me. -[security man] Madam is coming.
-Stand up! -Aunty Agy!
-You see now, stand up! -Morning, Ma.
-There's somebody in the guest house. -Ma, I'm so sorry.
[in Pidgin] You've allowed someone into this house again?
-[security man] Never! -[Iskilu] Yes, I'm sorry for…
[in Pidgin] You've opened the gate for someone again?
No. See, even him, I said after two minutes I'll throw him out.
I insist there's someone in the guest house.
Ma, nobody passed the gate, Ma.
-I was here, Ma. -Huh? In the guest house?
-Who's in the guest house? -I was here. I was watching, Ma.
-[Iskilu] Who is in the guest house? Ah! -I was at alert, hey!
-[Aunty Agy in Pidgin] You never listen. -[Iskilu in Yoruba] I'll kill them!
-I was here. I was watching. -[Iskilu in Yoruba] I'll kill them all.
[security man] Hey, hey!
[Aunty Agy in Pidgin] Seems you are stubborn.
-[Iskilu] I got you. I've got you covered. -[Aunty Agy] Isky!
[Aunty Agy in Pidgin] Isky, where are you going to?
Hey!
[tense music playing]
[Iskilu in Pidgin] Who's there?
[security man] Hey, hey!
[security man] How did you get here?
[tense music continues]
[in Pidgin] What are you looking for here?
-[Aunty Agy] Kill him! Idiot! -[security man] What are you doing here?
-[Iskilu in Yoruba] Thief! -[faint beeping]
-[Iskilu's voice echoes] Rubbish. -[beeping continues]
Good! You are awake. Now, explain yourself.
Get up, get up!
Em, em, wait!
I want to ask you a question.
Who opened this gate for you?
How did you enter this house?
Eh?
What is going on? Why am I tied like…?
-[officer] Quiet and answer the question. -[Iskilu] Hey, hey, hey!
Young man, answer the question. How did you get into my house?
Mommy… Mommy, what is going on? Why am I tied?
[officer] Hey! Young man,
you were found in an apartment that isn't yours.
-That isn't mine? -Yeah!
What is this joke? Please untie me. My head is banging.
What, what happened?
-[Sunmi] What is this? -Can you imagine?
Madam, [claps]
this boy [in Pidgin] is a thief.
-[all concur] Yes of course! -[in Pidgin] He's an armed robber.
He takes things that are not his.
You are packing things that's not for you.
-Aunty Agy! -Eh?
-[Mrs. Cole expresses surprise] -[Sunmi] Aunty Agy, is…?
[sucks teeth] What's going on? You guys should please stop this rubbish.
-[officer] Hey! -Aunty Agy. Hey, Aunty Agy it's me, Sunmi.
-Hey, stop it! Who are you? -Aunty Agy!
[in Yoruba] Speak up, fool! Speak up!
-Thief! -[officer] Hey young man, see,
if this case goes to the station,
[chuckles]
you will be in there forever!
Please you guys should stop this. [in Pidgin] Isky, please just tell them.
[Sunmi in Pidgin] What sort of rubbish is this?
Am I the one you are calling a thief and hitting on the head?
How did you know my name? Do I know you?
[in Yoruba] Don’t say my name again.
Wait, wait, wait! Isky, so you know him?
[in Yoruba] I don’t know him.
-So you know him? -I gave you this shirt you are wearing.
God will punish you.
I don't know, how do you know my name? I don't know him!
So Iskilu, you brought him to come and rob me.
Ha! No, ma! No, ma!
-[Mrs. Cole] You brought him to rob me! -So you know him!
[in Yoruba] I don't know him. I don't know him.
I don't… [in Yoruba] Ah! You are a mad man!
Mad man! Thief, thief! You want to incriminate me.
I don’t know him.
[in Pidgin] See, eh! See, please Mommy,
if this is a prank, can you just stop it?
-[officer 2] Who's playing pranks on you? -[in Pidgin] Please, please, please.
This is…
This is Mrs. Simisola Smith Smart-Cole.
-This is my mom. She is my mother. -No.
Don't put yourself into family issues.
[spluttering] My sister is Lara.
Ah, she's married to Philip. They both live in Aberdeen.
-Officer, I have two daughters, -[mutters indistinctly]
-Lara and Sunmisola… -[all concur] Yes!
I do not have a son. I don't know who he is. Take him away.
-[Iskilu in Yoruba] Yes. -Please, if, okay…
Which room was I coming from now? What, what… [spluttering]
See, that room you're asking? That room you are asking,
it’s madam’s late husband’s nephew’s.
Yes!
That boy
came to visit us.
He just left last night.
He left last night and he forgot his suitcase inside here.
[security man] It’s madam’s late husband. Are you late?
[officer 1] Young man, that is what you came for. Okay?
Um, whatsoever your name is, you are under arrest.
-Officer! -[Mrs. Cole] Take him away, officer.
-Please, take him away officer. -Take who away? Mom, stop this now.
-[officer 1] Who's your mommy? -[Sunmi] Stop this now.
-Hey, hey! -No, no, no…
-Hey, can you leave her? -Leave him, leave him. Wait, wait!
[Iskilu in Pidgin] Get away from my madam. Get away from my madam.
-[Sunmi] Wait, wait, wait first. -[Iskilu] He's a thief.
That's the new style they are using.
-[security man] Take him away! -[Iskilu] They will gather information.
-Mommy, mommy! -Take him away! Who's your mommy?
-Who's your mommy? Who's your mommy? -[Iskilu] Thief, instead of you to hustle.
Instead of you to hustle the way I'm hustling.
Hustling for my madam.
The way I'm hustling for my madam.
-[security man] Who's your mommy? -[Iskilu] Nonsense!
Do you know her?
You are calling our mommy your mommy!
-Who's your mommy? -Shut up!
So sorry, ma.
Ma,
so, what I wanted to address, ma.
I am so sorry for before.
Ma, if you forgive me,
Throw him out but…
-So, I'm sorry-- -You!
-Ma? -Our meeting…
this is your last strike!
The next time you allow this imbecile on my property
you're gone.
Yes, that imbecile.
-[Iskilu] Next time… -So throw him out now!
-Who's the imbecile, am I… -Last strike!
Is it that one that happened?
Madam, our meeting ma.
Madam?
-Ha! -Hello?
-I'm not the one. It's that guy. -Hello?
It's that imbecile they talked about.
-Hello? -I'm not the one. Am I the one?
-Hello, hello! -Am I…
Madam, please!
Hey, hey! Eh, eh!
Before they strike me eh, I will strike you!
-You hear me? Thunder will strike you! -No, please.
Amadioha will strike you!
-No! -Get out!
See, we can have an agreement. We can have agreement.
You can do morning shift. I do evening shift.
-You can do morning , I do evening shift. -See,
I will strike you in the morning. I will strike you in the evening. I say, move!
-Help me, please. -I say, move!
-Help me, bro [sobs] -I say, move!
-My friend, move! -Hey, hey, hey!
-Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. -Sir?
[crying] Thank God, thank God you're here. Mommy, please.
Mommy please, I'm sorry, okay?
Mommy, I'm sorry.
I know I have been difficult and
[sniffling] I know I have pushed you to the wall but,
but I'm sorry. I promise I will change.
See I promise, I promise that I will go,
I will go back to school.
I will get a job.
I promise that I will do anything to make you proud but mommy please
don't let them take me back in there. Mommy, please!
-DPO, -See what I mean?
-I don't know this young man. -[exclaims] Mommy!
Why? Okay, why will I deny knowing him if I really do?
You've spoken to my daughters in Aberdeen.
You've seen the family pictures.
Did you find him in any of them?
-[DPO exhales] -Mommy, please now.
No.
He claims you had him arrested few days ago
and he was detained here.
DPO, then you must know him!
You can testify that I haven't been here
in over one year when I got one of my staff arrested.
-Ah, no! -So you must know him!
No I don't know him.
And, em, none of the officers
-recognize him. -Exactly!
[expresses astonishment] Oga DPO, don't be lying now!
-[intrigue music begins] -Don't lie, you were the one that took me…
that yellow officer that told them to take me to the counter…
Listen! Listen!
I don't forget faces.
DPO, me, my tatoo .
-You remember… -But I definitely don't know you.
Ahn-ahn!
Okay, thank God. Thank God the [spluttering]
the photo album is there. I can point out anybody in that album.
Okay.
-[Mrs. Cole] Ah! -[DPO] Now,
who is this?
Mommy, this is Aunty Isi. This is her husband, Uncle Roja.
That's Uncle Banky. Mommy, is that not Uncle Banky?
Is he correct?
No DPO, he's not correct.
That's, em, Pastor Afolabi and his family.
Mom, who's Pastor Afolabi? Mommy!
Mommy, I'm sorry now. I get the point.
Who is this?
Ahn-ahn!
This is Uncle Ameh.
This is Uncle Ameh and his wife and his son, Mommy!
That is Barrister Derin and his daughter Sunmisola.
Mommy, please. Mommy please. Mommy please!
DPO see, listen. This picture, I remember this picture very vividly.
This picture like, wait…
Ahn-ahn! What is going on?
[frustrated] This is the picture. This is our family. This is my mom.
This is my sister and this is, this is [hesitates]
this is supposed to be me. I was wearing a beret in this picture.
Mommy, what is going on? [in Pidgin] Is this a prank?
What is going on, now?
-[mom] Right on time. -[Sunmi] Thank God.
[man] Is that the young man?
-Uncle Ameh. -[mom] Yes, that's him.
Uncle Ameh, can you just explain to mommy please?
Can you just explain to them that, that…
it's me, Sunmi. Because I don't understand what's going on.
Who is Uncle Ameh?
[DPO] Ahn-ahn.
[Sunmi softly] See…
[Sunmi inhales deeply]
So…
What's going on? This is my family.
Er, how do you explain this?
How do you explain this? Hmm?
[mobile phone beeps]
How do you explain why you are not er… [surprised] Eh?
Call her, call her… [hesitates]
-Call Lara. -Okay.
Even her!
She doesn't know you.
She can never say that. She can never say that.
Uncle Ameh, Mommy, I, I, DPO I was here on…
What is going on? This is my family.
But how do you explain this?
[Mrs. Cole sighs]
Oh God! Mommy, I get your point.
I, I get your point and I'm sorry.
And I will never do it again. Like, I will, I will… [sighs]
[Sunmi hisses]
Mrs. Cole here is keen on pressing charges.
Is that clear?
But em,
looking at the complexity of this matter,
I feel like pleading for him.
-Hmm? -[Mrs. Cole] Hmm.
But listen, [chuckles]
if this is just er,
an act to avoid quality time in jail,
you have earned yourself a degree in acting.
[crying] I'm not acting. I'm not acting! I'm not acting!
Do I look… DPO, would I go through all this stress?
I'm not acting. Mommy, why are you doing this to me?
Mommy, they will kill me in there! Mommy, they are beating me in there!
What is going on? What is going on? I get the point!
[Sunmi] What is going on? [sobs]
[Sunmi] Tsk!
-[Sunmi whimpers] -[DPO sighs]
Officer.
Sir!
Officer, take him away.
Mommy?
-[door opens] -[Sunmi] Uncle Ameh.
Officer, wait! Uncle Ameh.
-Mommy. Wait! [shouts]. Officer! -[loud beeping]
-Wait. Just wait! Just wait! -[loud beeping continues]
-Mommy, can you guys hear the sound? -[hisses]
[officer] This way!
[Sunmi] Wait can you guys hear the sound?
-[loud beep sound continues] -Can you guys hear this sound?
-You can't hear this sound? -My friend, move.
Okay, I'm mad then. Take me away.
[Sunmi whimpers]
[soft music playing]
-[soft music continues] -[dog barks]
[security man] Hey! Psst… yes?
What do you? What do you care for?
Please, you can see I'm having a headache.
Who opened the gate for you?
Listen, I just want to see my mom. That's all I'm asking for.
-Just allow me, please. -Um, hold on.
Which mom do you want to see? Is it [in Yoruba] Our Mommy or Big Mommy?
Which one of them?
Tsk! Guy, see, I just want to see my mom.
-Don't ask me any stupid-- -Your mom is not here.
My friend, go outside!
-You just came, opened the gate, entered! -I should go outside
Is it your house?
[hisses] Please go outside!
-Okay, let me go to my room to just get-- -You cannot go to your room.
I said, be going.
Guy, please don't touch me again.
Hello?
I said, be going.
Guy, I said don't touch me! Are you okay?!
[shouts] Eh? Eh?
Em, just go outside.
-Guy, don't try me this afternoon! -What's your name?
-See, hey! -Don't try me this afternoon o!
-Hey, Aunty Agy. Aunty Agy, talk to him. -[security chuckles] You don't know me!
Aunty Agy, talk to him because I'm about to go mad right now.
I'm about to go mad!
Welcome. So I was inside.
I heard somebody open the gate.
I said, "Who is there?" He said, "His mommy."
I said, "Please, I'm begging you, just go outside. Your mommy is not here."
He said he will kill me.
-Do you even know me? Do you know me? -[in Pidgin] I will headbutt you,
-trust me. -Eh?!
[in Pidgin] Headbutt me! Headbutt me!
-It's… Psst. -Aunty Agy, tell him please!
[in Pidgin] Sir, please.
-It's like you don’t like your work. -I'm sorry.
[in Pidgin] You just got a job and you’re letting lunatics into the compound
to ask after Mommy, right?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
-Right? -I'm sorry.
Er sir,
-Sorry, Aunty Agy? -Oga? Oga?
-[security man] Oga? -Is it me that is the mad person?
-[in Pidgin] Please, carry him out! -Oga, please go outside. Go outside!
-Don't… Aunty Agy, talk to him. -Go outside! Eh, who's your Auntyy?
Aunty Agy, tell him now. What is going on here now?
-[calls dogs] Shina Rambo! Psst, Sniper! -Psst, Sniper!
-Aunty Agy, what is this now? -Passion!
-What is going on? -Carry him out!
-[security man] Go outside! -[Sunmi] Don't push me, bro.
-[in Pidgin] Carry him out! -I'm going to go mad, bro!
-Who is your bro? Who is your bro? -[Aunty Agy] I say carry him out!
-Hey! Take him out! Shina Rambo! Boosky! -Who's your bro? I say go outside!
Take him out. These dogs are useless! They know how to eat. Lock the gate!
-[dogs barking] -Aunty Agy, its me, Sunmi.
-Which Sunmi? Nonsense! -[security man] Calling me bro!
[indistinct conversation]
That's the kind of enjoyment I want to be having. I had mad fun.
Oh God, I'm tired.
Ah man, Rele. How's it going?
Who are you?
Hmm. Sorry, who are you? We don't know you.
Tsk! What do you mean, who am I? Bianca, what are you saying?
-[Sunmi] What's this, please? -Ah, wonderful!
You even know my name. Sorry, who are you? Do you know him?
No, I don't.
See, wait, you guys will not believe what happened to me today, man.
I've gone through the hardest time, bro.
Guy! Am I supposed to know you?
Are you lost or something? Sorry, who are you?
He's a kidnapper. That's the way they behave.
Before you know it, my breast will be missing.
We don't know you. Please leave!
Wait, you guys. You guys.
How much did my momsy pay you?
-Nigga, please. -[Sunmi] Like how much, how did she--
-[Rele] Nigga, leave my house. -I'm getting angry.
Ha! Did she pay everybody? I don't understand.
-[Sunmi] Ahn-ahn! -If you don't go, I will release Jack.
You don't want to know who Jack is.
-Get out of my house, guy. -[Bianca] Can you imagine?!
[in Pidgin] Stop it. Let's go inside and--
[in Pidgin] Guy, leave my house.
Leave my house now! Now! If I see you here again…
-That's the way they behave. -[Sunmi] Rele?
-[in Pidgin] Leave me house. -[Sunmi] Bianca!
If I count to ten and you're still there…
["Orun Moru" by Brymo playing]
‎[mouths silently]
‎-[melancholic music playing] ‎-[inaudible conversation]
[hawker advertising] Fine butter bread!
[hawker in Yoruba] Good afternoon, aren't you buying bread?
Fine butter bread!
Todowede's butter bread!
Aunty Abeni, [in Yoruba] Todowede is here!
Knock, knock!
Ahn-ahn! Brother?
[loud beeping]
[hawker's faint voice in Yoruba] Didn't the people selling here come today?
[loud beeping continues]
Brother!
[loud beeping continues]
-[in Yoruba] I'm talking to you! -[loud beeping stops abruptly]
Tsk!
Am I in your way?
Ahn-ahn.
[in Yoruba] I know you.
Are you not Isky’s friend?
Help me bring down my wares.
Ahn-ahn! [in Yoruba] Or?
[plastic bag rustles]
Ahn-ahn! [in Yoruba] Are you not Isky’s friend?
I know you.
[in Pidgin] What happened to you? [in Yoruba] Who did this to you?
[in Yoruba] Aren't you Isky’s friend? Isky, the security man?
at that big house that is in Olowo Street.
-Yes, I know Isky. -[exclaims in agreement]
[in Yoruba] I knew it!
I was right! What happened?
Who did this to you? Why do you look so rough?
Wait, you know Isky?
So, so, [spluttering] and, and, you know me through Isky?
You know me!
[in Yoruba] What did you smoke?
[in Pidgin] I don't know you. [in Yoruba] I'm just getting to know you.
[in Yoruba] What are you doing in our neighborhood?
You left your affluent Olowo street and came to this place. Why?
I'm looking for Isky and,
it's a long story.
[in Yoruba] Sit down, sit down.
Sit down!
All this while I didn’t know you were this ugly.
Were you wearing makeup then?
What happened to you?
Where are your family members?
What happened to you? What happened to them?
[in English] They don't want me.
[in Yoruba] What did you do to them?
Ha! [sardonic laughter]
You have done what all spoiled rich kids do.
-Did you impregnate someone? -Hm?
-Did you impregnate someone? -[in English] No, no I didn't do that.
[in Yoruba] Then, what did you do?
[car horn blares]
[in Yoruba] You stole! Why did you steal?
[in English] I did not steal. Please don't call me a thief. I did not steal.
[in Yoruba] You’re not capable of murder. Did you tell a lie against them?
[in English] I did not do anything. I did not steal. I did not get anybody pregnant.
And I did not, I did not do anything.
I guess, I guess they just didn't want me around anymore.
[expresses sympathy]
[in Yoruba] I thought they were your family, that you were related.
[in English] I thought the same thing too.
I thought they were my family but now it's like,
it's like maybe they adopted me or something.
[hisses]
[in Yoruba] And you don't have any other relative anywhere?
[in English] I don't have anybody else. I guess I'm alone.
[in Pidgin then Yoruba] What are you going to do?
I'm going to have to find a way to survive on the streets on my own.
[scoffs] [in Yoruba] You can't survive a whole day here.
This place is different from your neighborhood.
‎[sighs]
I have searched your entire neighborhood for Isky.
I went there twice but I didn't see Isky.
[in English] They fired him. They fired him because he was my friend and
I've been looking for him. I don't know.
I've checked everywhere.
So I said let me even come here maybe I will…
[in Yoruba] This is serious.
Isky says good things about you. He says you’re a good kid.
What is…? What is…?
My name is Sunmi. What's your name?
Todowede Sewedo.
Todowede, what?
[in Yoruba] Why can't you pronounce it well?
Todowede Sewedo. I'm Egun.
Oh!
[Islamic call to prayer in Arabic]
[in Yoruba] Leave it.
This is the food we bought.
[plastic bag rustles]
[tin clanks]
[water sloshing]
[in Yoruba] Get a spoon, come and eat. Or do you want me to spoon-feed you?
Get a spoon, sit down and eat. Ah! [hisses]
What is it? You want sugar in it?
Don't you know that sugar is bad for male reproductive health?
It causes erectile dysfunction and impotence.
[in English] There's nothing wrong with me down there.
[in Yoruba] Eat.
Okay. Have the akara.
Don’t play with the food. Why are you eating akara with a spoon?
[hisses]
I hope you've seen my mini-flat?
I hope you've seen how very clean my mini-flat is?
You must not make a mess. I hate dirt. Did you hear me?
[in English] Yes.
[in Yoruba] Don't make it dirty.
-[spoon clatters] -[snorts scornfully]
-[slow konga beat plays] -[water pouring]
[hisses]
[in Yoruba] Take this…
For sleeping.
What? What are you doing? Do you want to sleep on the mattress with me?
Take the mat and spread over there.
These rich kids are spoiled. He wants to lie on the bed.
[hisses]
[spreads the mat]
[sniffs]
Thank you.
[exhales]
[sniffs]
[hisses]
[wood clatters]
[in Yoruba] Oh no, there’s no problem.
Just in case you have an erection. I’ll use this to send the erection away.
There’s no problem, they are both hard woods of some sort.
This one will take care of that.
[slow konga beat continues]
[Todowede in Yoruba] Don't let the devil use you.
But if the devil uses you, this will send him out.
[Islamic call to prayer in Arabic]
[in Yoruba] Wake up!
What sort of sleep is this that the sound of the bell couldn't wake you up?
Is this how you'll be deeply asleep if the house were on fire?
Get up and stop doing that. [hisses]
Get up, get up!
[sniffs several times]
Ahn-ahn! Is there something stuck in your nose?
Why do you keep doing that?
-[sniffs] -Here, take.
You have to go get water. I’ll take you there.
The big gallon is ten naira.
The small buckets are five naira. I want you to fill the two of them. Here.
Make sure you pay only after fetching the water. The boys there are cheats.
They can deny receiving money from you. Do you hear?
Get up! Stop being sluggish.
I need to get bread from the bakery for the morning rush.
[plastic bag rustles]
[in Yoruba] Here take. Go and take your bath.
Have your bath fast so that we can go out to hawk.
-Em-- -What is "em"?
You want me to leave you in my house so you can steal all my stuff?
Don’t you know that I worked hard to get everything I have?
Do you think I became an elite without working?
Go and have your bath so we can go out to hawk.
[in English] This water is too small. And
don't be calling me a thief, I've told you I don't like that.
[in Yoruba] This water is too small?
Did you not go out to get water? Didn’t you see the queue?
This bucket is five naira.
I gave you ten naira to fetch this.
You want me to give you money to fetch? Don’t you know it’s expensive?
If you like, go back there and fetch your own water.
Fetch your water and pay with your own money.
I don't have a problem with that.
But you will bath with this quantity here because water is expensive.
And hurry so we can go to work or do I leave you behind
so I can do all the work while you eat?
[in English] I get you. Why are you always angry?
[in Yoruba] I don't know why your family members are always angry.
Hurry so we can go to work. It's too early for this.
[lively music playing]
Fine butter bread!
[lively music continues]
[gate clangs shut]
[in Yoruba] Em, I think you should go look for a job.
-Hm-hmm? -Hmm!
You should get a job so that you can earn some money.
-[in English] Like what type of work? -[huffs]
[in Yoruba, sarcastically] Like a manager or a CEO job.
[in English] I didn't mean it like that. I was just joking. Okay,
any type of work will do.
[in Yoruba] Tomorrow, I'll see if I can call someone to help you get a job
Okay?
[in English] Okay, thank you.
Okay. Are you not buying bread?
Ah.
[in Yoruba] It's soft.
Eat quickly so that you can go and get more bread from the bakery
-for this evening. -[Ayedun by Qdot playing]
-[Ayedun by Qdot continues playing] -[traffic noises]
Hey!
-[in Yoruba] He has ruined my goods! -No no, it was a mistake.
-Ma, it was an accident. -No, I don't accept your apology.
I won’t let you go. You have ruined my goods.
-I won’t let you go. -[in English] I did not know.
It did not break.
-[in Yoruba] Ah, Mommy don't be angry. -No way! No, no, no!
I will collect the money for them.
What is it? What's happening?
He spoiled my goods.
-What goods did he spoil? -These ones.
-Madam these goods… -[in English] No, I don't want to hear!
[in Yoruba] What is wrong with you? Why are you bringing me so much trouble?
I want my money. I'll collect my money.
Calm down, leave him alone.
-No, no, no. I said I won't let him go. -I will pay you. Leave him alone.
-How much is your money? -It’s ten thousand
How many cartons is 10,000 naira?
I don’t care. It’s 10,000.
Look at the trouble you've dragged me into now.
I don’t know who they are. But they came and threw my goods away.
[Qdot's Ayedun continues]
[indistinct market chattering]
That's the amount I have.
-After everything I carried for you, Mama? -That's all.
[in Pidgin] Mommy, you didn't…
[Ayedun by Qdot playing]
[in Yoruba] Get up!
Come and help me bring this down.
Gently!
Have you not heard the saying?
‎What?
That there's no food for a lazy man. You are sleeping.
You ought to have had your bath so that we can go and hawk.
[in English] Listen, Todowede, I know,
I know that you are trying to help me but,
but we need to find something else to do. My neck is paining me,
my shoulder is paining me, my achilles is paining me,
my whole body is paining me, please.
[in Yoruba] Have all those doing this all these while dead?
I've been doing this for years, am I dead?
You’re complaining of neck pains and all. What's my business with that?
[in English] I don't know. We have to find something else. I'm not lazy but,
but I can't die as well.
[in Yoruba] Fetch water and have your bath so you can go to job while I do the same.
[konga music playing]
Don't throw my wares away if you don’t want trouble.
-Good afternoon. -Ha!
-[hailing] Tao-tao! Tao-tao! -[in Pidgin] We'll be here till tomorrow.
[both laugh]
[in Pidgin] How are you? Looking as fresh as tomatoes in the farm. Oh, Todewede!
Tao!
[in Pidgin] You don't buy bread from me anymore.
Buy bread? [chuckles] Don't you know I have upgraded?
Monkeys don’t eat bread.
So I am substituting it with this henceforth as progress.
[in Yoruba and Pidgin] Okay. You are a monkey.
Huh?
[in Yoruba] You just said you are a monkey.
[hisses] Oh, please! Todo, ah, who is this person?
-Is he your boyfriend? -[hisses] Look, forget that!
[in Pidgin] I'm looking for Jobe.
-Jobe? -Yes.
Jobe has moved from here.
Really? Where did he go?
Ah, Jobe?
Jobe doesn't hang out with us anymore. He is no longer in our league.
-He has moved on. -Ah.
But why do you want to see Jobe?
[in Yoruba] Em, I want him to help my brother.
[in Pidgin] Okay, you wanted him to help him?
-Eh. -Eh?
-Jobe has moved on from here. -Ah! [hisses]
But don't you have his phone number?
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] I don't have it. Do you?
[in Pidgin] Eh, I should have his cell phone number.
Let me give it to you so you can call him.
-Makanaki! -I hope there's no problem?
[in Yoruba] My boss's sister! Such a beauty!
[hailing] Makanaki, the great one!
[in Yoruba] She knows how to hail her brother.
-You know how to honor people. -[chuckles]
-You know how to praise me. -[in Yoruba] I swear!
So? Who is the problem?
Em, [clears throat] [in Yoruba] I came to talk to you about my brother.
[in English] Em, hello, hi!
-Ah! -Eh?
[in Yoruba] Speak up! Speak up!
No, I said hello, hi--
[in Yoruba] Hi, hi, hi will kill your mother!
Are you accursed?
Did you hear him?
[in Yoruba] Do you know who is seated?
He looks familiar…
-Ahn-ahn! -[Makanaki] Eh?
[man] Familiar?
-[Makanaki] Is he a fool?! -Ha!
[in Yoruba] Are you crazy?
-It's me, the Jagaban. -Ah!
[in Yoruba] Don’t you know Makanaki? Makanaki!
AKA Cause-Trouble.
-The top dog. -A boss with a million fans!
Are you accursed?
If you want to greet someone like him…
[in English] Teach him!
You, first, have to do this.
Then do this.
[man] Then do this.
Then say, "Twale, twale, twale!"
Ahn-ahn. You’re just standing?
[Sunmi] Sorry, sorry.
It's okay.
[in bad Yoruba accent] Twale, twale, twale!
[in Yoruba] He's saying "twale" with an English accent.
Come, are you Tupac?
No.
What is written on your chest?
[in Yoruba] Why are you covering it up? Leave it open!
-Ah, he tattooed a newspaper on his chest. -I cannot read.
[in Yoruba] Jobe, please leave him alone
What we discussed on the phone about him last night…
-[in Yoruba] Oh! He’s the one? -Help me discuss it with Jugunu.
Really?
[teasing in singsong voice] Todowedo Sowedo!
-Is he your husband? -[in Yoruba] No, he’s not my husband.
I just want you to discuss what I told you with Jugunu.
He’ll get any type of job he wants.
-Why can’t he be a bus conductor? -Ah!
Is he special?
No, he can’t work as a conductor because he won't last two days.
-[Makanaki] Really? Ignore her. -You mean us bus conductors are low-lifes?
There's nothing wrong with it. He'll go out in the morning and come back at night.
He won't survive till evening, he will be dead in the morning.
[in English] I'm looking at you. I can see you’re like Wizkid.
[comic music playing]
[in Yoruba] You're having sex with her.
You're entering left and front.
-Ah [appalled] -No! [spluttering] I… With her, I,
-I try my best to be straightforward. -[in Yoruba] Hey, I am doomed!
-Wow, you do it face-to-face. -[chuckling] Ah!
-Todowede Sowedo, you'll give birth soon! -[laughing] Bang, bam!
-[man] You will get pregnant. -[Makanaki laughs]
-[in Yoruba] Do not mind him. He's crazy. -Really?
He’s accursed. He has nothing to offer me.
What rubbish "straightforward" are you talking about?
-Really? -He gives me nothing "straightforward".
You are having an affair with my sister!
No, I'm just looking for a job, to be honest. We are just friends.
[in Yoruba] Yeah, you think we're dumb?
[in Pidgin] See, you will give birth!
Do you understand? You will give birth!
And you, if you cannot take care of a child, don't have a child.
[in Yoruba] Hey! Did you hear him?
If you can’t provide for a child, don't have a child.
-[Makanaki] It's like that. -Don’t impregnate my boss’s sister.
-No, no, no. She's just my friend please. -Okay.
And I just need a job.
-I’ll talk to Jugunu on your behalf. -[in Yoruba] You’ll get a job.
["Man Like Me" by Big Sheff playing]
-[Todo] Aunty Biliki! -[neighborhood boys greeting]
[in Yoruba] Jugunu's brother, is Jugunu home? Hello.
No, no, he's with me. We're going to see Jugunu. Leave him alone!
And you keep mumbling. Can’t you greet? You have to greet them. Eh?
Come here, please! You should greet them. Speak up!
[man praising in Yoruba] Great lady! Beautiful chick! Wonderful lady!
A lady with outstanding beauty!
-Forget how it happened, I swear. -[whispers quietly]
[man] Forget it, I'm still with you. [chuckles]
You will do well. It is well. Yeah!
[laughing] Oh, boy! Hmm!
Hmm!
[in Pidgin, Yoruba] Is he your boyfriend?
[in Yoruba] No, he’s my cousin.
Really?
[in Pidgin] Does he live in this neighborhood?
[in Pidgin] Em, he just got back from his trip.
-[in Yoruba] Okay, he traveled? Eh? -Hmm!
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] Were you deported?
Well, actually, em, something like that.
[in Yoruba] Oh, that’s sad!
He looks like a deportee.
[hisses] [in Yoruba] Forget that! What's up?!
Todowede. My girl! How are you?
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] What's been happening? Todowede, you've been scarce!
What's going on? Why have you been scarce.
[in Yoruba] Jugunu, you’re the one that’s scarcely around.
I don’t see you whenever I come to get bread.
Me? Me, scarce? [cackles]
I cannot be counted amongst things referred to as scarce commodities.
I'm always available for you, any day, anytime!
I swear! Or have I been unavailable? I'm always available!
I’m always here, believe me.
I want you to understand me, do what I want.
If you be my woman…
If you be my woman, I swear,
[in Pidgin] you won't ever have to work again!
[in Yoruba] You won’t have to work again. Look at her.
Ask her. When I met her she was really frail like a match stick.
But I have taken care of her. Now look how robust she is.
All she does is eat.
[in Pidgin] Jugunu, I want to work.
[in Yoruba] Forget about all that.
How can you help my brother?
Hmm! [in Pidgin] You say he's your brother,
but before I know it you'd have started a love affair--
[in English] No, boss. [spluttering] That's not the case.
She's actually, um, my family, like relative.
-Really? -[in Yoruba] Yes, he’s my cousin.
-He's family. -…what she said.
[in Yoruba] There’s no problem, Todowede. It’s you! I’ll do anything for you.
Believe me, if he doesn’t do what he’s supposed to,
I’ll ask them to deal with him.
I don’t care. Look, I don’t condone stealing!
Do you understand me?
[in Pidgin] My bread must not get spoiled. If it does, you'll pay.
-[in Yoruba] Did you hear me? -[Sunmi] Yes, boss!
[in Yoruba] He won't dare. Did you hear all he said?
Don’t be unfortunate, I’m only trying to help you. Don’t mess it up.
Did you hear me? Don’t be unfortunate.
[in English] I'm not going to be unfortunate.
-[in Yoruba] Jugunu, he won’t mess up. -He won't mess this up?
Even if he does, I’ll ask them to deal with him.
Maybe burn him with a baking pan, I don't care!
[in Pidgin, Yoruba] At the same time, I pay daily. Do you understand?
Mister, you will be paid daily. One thousand naira daily.
I’m talking about how much you’ll be paid daily.
-One thousand naira. -[Sunmi] Yes, sir.
-[Jugunu] Are you interested or not? -I am interested.
[in Pidgin] When are you starting?
Hmm?
[in Pidgin] When are you starting?
[in Yoruba] What’s wrong with you?
-[in English] Oh, em, maybe next week-- -Ahn-ahn!
[in Yoruba] I thought you just said you won’t mess this up.
But you’re already messing it up.
Who’s going to feed you till next week?
See, Jugunu, he’s idle. He’ll go in and start working now.
Go and start working.
[in English] Okay, I'll start today.
Get going! What's wrong with you?
-[Jugunu] What’s wrong with him? -Do you want to enter the oven?
We’ve been here before to buy bread. You are already misbehaving.
Go on. Why are you moving in circles? Who is this?
You’re saying goodbye like we won't see each other again.
He’s an unfortunate person.
Why is he waving like he’s never returning home?
["Sise" by Femi Leye playing]
‎-[music continues playing] ‎-[silent conversation]
-[indistinct conversation] -[Sunmi in Pidgin] My guy,
-hurry up. What do you mean, you're not…? -[in Yoruba] Oh my goodness.
-[hailing in Yoruba] Oh wow! -[laughs]
[in Pidgin, Yoruba] How's it? Come, come!
[in Yoruba] Yes, what's happening?
[in Pidgin] Has Isokoko placed an order?
Yes, Isokoko has placed an order.
The old lady at Abule-Oja has also placed her order.
The beans seller at Atobaje has also placed an order. Three of them.
[in Yoruba] Well done. You’re a good kid. I like you already.
I can see that you are now confident and that’s what I like.
-[in Pidgin] Boss, I'm here for you. -[in Yoruba] Do you get? Well done.
[in Pidgin] So, who is making the deliveries? You or Ogamba?
No, Ogamba brought out bread today, so I’ll handle the deliveries.
[in Yoruba] Oh, well done! Shake me.
[shrieks] Hey! Are you crazy?
[Jugunu] What is it?
-[in Pidgin] Sorry. -[in Yoruba] Do you want to injure me?
-[Jugunu sobs] -[in Pidgin] I'm sorry, boss.
You know it's because I've been kneading the flour.
-You need to calm down. -Don't be angry.
-Life is easy! Well done. -I’m here for you, boss.
Em, you know what? My girlfriend and I are going out.
[in English] Okay, Island?
[in Yoruba] Yes, I just want her to have a feel of the place because
she feels like she’s experienced it all.
I want her to know that I can give her a good time.
-[laughing] That’s normal. -[laughing] Yes, sure!
Calm down! [in Yoruba] What’s wrong with you?
So, I'm letting you know so that you can hold fort while I'm gone.
[in Pidgin] Hold everywhere tight. Lock everywhere down. Good!
No problem boss. That's normal.
[in English] Tell Shade to order some flour and butter.
What about sugar?
-Add sugar. -Okay, no problem.
[in Yoruba] You are very smart.
-When I get back, we’ll do the rest. -No problem.
-No problem. Take care of this place. -No problem.
-Be smart. Don't mess with me. -No problem.
If you mess with me, I’ll deal with you.
[singing in Yoruba] ♪ This life is not hard ♪
♪ It's the people in it That have made it hard ♪
[hailing] Riski-baby! Riski-baby!
[in Pidgin] Sunmi, please leave me alone. Where's my money?
Sunmi, where’s my money?
Wow! Is it because of 500 naira
you're addressing me rudely? Here’s your money.
[in Yoruba] It's not your fault.
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] It’s not your fault. Look, I’m no longer nice.
[in Pidgin] I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
I have tried all that I can to get your attention. Am I not pretty enough?
-Riski-baby! -Wait, wait, wait.
You keep hanging around that Egun girl.
Look at how curvaceous I am!
Riski, will you calm down or not? I've told you to forget about that.
-How much rice do you want? -What’s wrong with you?
Ahn-ahn! Serve me 70 naira rice and add…
add thirty naira plantain for me.
How many pieces of meat?
-Meat? -Ehn!
-[swallows words] I'm not buying meat. -Eh?
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] Speak up! How many pieces of meat?
[in Pidgin] I said I don't want meat. Do you want everyone to hear that?
-What's wrong with you? Ahn-ahn! -You don't want to buy meat!
-You like misbehaving. -That’s your business.
I'm surprised at you.
Hello? Todo, what's up?!
[soft music playing]
-[Sunmi] Todowede? -[Todowede] Hmm? [hisses]
-Todowede? -Hmm?
[in Pidgin] Why are you shivering? What’s wrong with you?
[in Yoruba] Ah! Your hands are cold [inhales]
The whole of my body aches. I think I have malaria.
Ah!
[in Pidgin] What medication have you taken?
[in Yoruba] I bought medication from Emeka the chemist but it didn't work.
-Emeka the chemist? -My body still aches.
[in Pidgin] Emeka the chemist? You should have taken good herbs.
You know what? I’ll go to Abeni that sells herbs to get you something that will work.
How exactly do you feel? These can’t work.
[in Yoruba] I am not comfortable. My body aches. I have a headache.
[Sunmi] Sorry.
[hisses] Your hands are cold.
The whole of my back, my legs, my bones, everything aches and hurts.
[hisses] [in Pidgin] What sort of nonsense is this?
I have told you to stop walking about in the sun but you never listen.
Eh? Find a shed where you can sell your bread but you won’t listen to me.
[hisses] Sorry, okay? I’ll be right back, please.
[in Yoruba] Thank you.
-What's the time? -[groans]
-Okay, I’ll be back. -[Todowede] I've heard.
-[hisses] -[soft instrumental music playing]
‎-[soft music continues] ‎-[silent words]
-[in Yoruba] Knock, knock! -[clears throat]
-Greetings! -[Sunmi] Hmm, welcome.
Ah, why are you standing?
[in Pidgin] How was sales?
[in Yoruba] [hisses] Look, leave it.
[in Yoruba] It’s not heavy. I can put it down by myself.
[grunts]
Sales was poor today. Really poor sales today.
It was very slow, I didn't finish selling my wares today.
Em, Olowosango wants you to come and see him. Are you doing business with him?
-Eh, he's doing something for me. -[in Pidgin] Really? What?
How is that your business?
[hisses, snickers then scoffs]
[in Yoruba] Have you gone to see the caretaker?
[in Pidgin] Em, yes, yes, yes. I saw him and I gave him money
and I have also paid Olowosango for the mosquito net.
So this weekend, I’ll just
move in. [laughs]
[in Yoruba] Well done. I’m happy for you.
You didn't misbehave or join bad gang.
[in Pidgin] No one moves with Todowede and joins a bad gang.
[both laughing]
[in Yoruba] Please, move so I can sit. I’m tired.
What’s this?
-Ahn-ahn! -Happy birthday, Todowede Grace!
[in Pidgin] In fact, let me sing for you.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday, happy birthday ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you… ♪
[Sunmi laughing]
[in Yoruba] You didn't forget.
Thank you.
[in Pidgin] Todowede, what is it? Don't cry, please.
Don't cry, please.
[in Yoruba] Nobody remembers my birthday.
Even I forget.
Because I have no reason to celebrate.
But you remembered.
You even got me a cake. [sniffling] Thank you.
I won't forget this. God won’t forget you.
[in Pidgin] I can’t forget you either, Todowede.
Do you know all you’ve done for me that I can't ever forget?
Please stop crying. If not I’ll also cry.
[sniffling] [in Yoruba] Thank you. I appreciate it.
[Sunmi in Pidgin] Hey, please!
If you cry, you'll ruin your makeup for the pictures we’re about to take.
[Todowede laughs]
[sniffling] [in Yoruba ] Thank you.
[in Pidgin] Okay, let’s take pictures.
[in Yoruba] I can’t take pictures because my phone's camera is not sharp.
-[in Yoruba] It’s not sharp? -Hmm!
Really?
Check that side.
[sniffles] [in Yoruba] For what?
[sniffles]
[in Pidgin] Open it.
Ah! [in Yoruba] Where did you get the money to buy a phone?
[in Pidgin] Do you like it?
[in Yoruba] Where did you get the money to buy it?
[in Pidgin] Em, I've been saving for it
because I knew your birthday was coming up.
So I asked Jigadon to help me get it.
Jigadon!
-[in Yoruba] Jigadon that steals! -[in Pidgin] Calm down, now!
Ahn-ahn, you're too temperamental. That's the problem I have with you. Calm down.
I’ll get mad at you.
You are so stubborn.
I meant that Jigadon took me to a guy in Computer Village.
The guy then took me to the store where I bought it. I made sure it’s original.
It's the type the girls on Instagram use.
-[in Yoruba] Swear. -I swear.
[hisses, laughs]
[laughing] [in Pidgin] Open it, why are you…
Let me…
Let it not fall.
[giggling]
Here, take it out by yourself.
[giggles] [in Yoruba] It has a camera at the back!
[in Yoruba] I need to change this dress.
No, your clothes are fine.
-Your clothes are fine. -No, let me change.
There's a new dress I just made from Saida. It's a lace dress.
[upbeat music playing]
Tsk. [in Pidgin] That was how I ran away.
[in Yoruba] I came back here to hustle.
It was Brother Jobe that helped me.
[in Pidgin] Hmm? So your mom didn't,
she didn’t come looking for you at all?
[in Yoruba] She got married immediately.
Look, I have moved on. Is this not me?
-[Sighs] -[Todowede sighs and hisses]
[in Pidgin] I’ll miss you.
[chuckles] [in Pidgin] I’ll miss you too.
Why are you saying that? I’m just on the other street.
I’ll come here to see you every night.
I’ll make sure I register my presence here.
Are you sure?
Ahn-ahn! [hisses] See, I'm sure. I promise.
Okay.
[soft music playing]
[in Pidgin] What is it?
-I’ve never done it before. -Huh?
-You've never done it at all? -[tuts]
-Really? What about this one? -[tuts]
[exhales] Okay.
If that's the case, maybe we shouldn't bother.
Ahn-ahn! [in Yoruba] Don't you like me anymore?
-Like? -Eh.
Todowede, [in Pidgin] what I feel for is more than liking you.
[chuckles]
I like your drive. I like your spirit.
I like your laugh. [both laughing] I like everything about you.
[in Pidgin] But now that you've told me that
that you have not been de-flowered,
I'd like us to wait. Okay?
[in Pidgin] But you wanted to do it before.
Yes, I wanted to but after you told me that you’re a virgin
I’d like to make sure that your first time, hey! [clucks]
I'd like your first time to be special.
I’ll like to be sure that you're ready, okay?
Okay?
-Why are being shy? Look up. -[in Yoruba] Leave me alone.
-Look up. Why are you shy? -Leave me alone, Sunmi.
Todowede! [both laughing]
["All Night Long" by Hypa playing]
-Watch your legs. -Okay. Ooh!
[in Pidgin] Hey, hey, hey! What I want to show you now
is what Olowosango has been helping me with.
Don't shout! Because you always do that.
Now, open your eyes.
Ahn-ahn! [in Yoruba] Do you want to start selling stuff?
[in Pidgin] It’s for you, dummy.
-[in Yoruba] For me? -Yes.
Stop making jokes. You play too much. [chuckle] Ahn-ahn!
[in Pidgin] It’s yours.
[giggling]
[in Pidgin] You know I don’t like how you walk about under the sun everyday.
So I asked Omojoigbo to help you pay for a stall in that market.
So that you can hawk in the mornings and after you can…
Don’t sit on it.
Afterwards you can sell your wares here, okay?
I don’t like as those boys gawk at you when you’re hawking! Ahn-ahn!
[in Yoruba] Thank you! [giggling]
-Do you like it? -Ah!
[in Yoruba] Thank you, Sunmi. Ah!
-Like… -Come, I want to pray for you.
[chuckles]
Just like you made me happy, God will provide for you.
-Amen. -God will pray for you.
-Amen -You will be happy.
[in Pidgin] You will be overwhelmingly happy.
[in Yoruba] Ah, thank you.
-I will just stay here and say, -Yes?
-"Fine butter bread!" -[both laugh]
[in Yoruba] The mad man didn't even give me what I'll use to…
[giggles] Sunmi, handsome man, how are you?
[in Pidgin] Riski, what’s the problem?
What's all this? I've told you that I am not interested.
Aw! Which don’t like?
Is it this or this?
-[feigns surprise] Hey, Egun girl, -Look what you've… What’s all this?
Sorry. I didn't see you before now.
[in Yoruba] Of course, you didn't.
You didn't see me because I don't look like an elephant like you.
Ahn-ahn! Who is an elephant?
You, of course. Why are you bringing your big chest close to my face?
-Egun girl, watch yourself. -And if I did not, what will you do?
-Egun girl, watch yourself. -What’s wrong with you?
If you point your finger at me again I’ll show you that I’m an Ebira girl.
You think you can intimidate because you’re big?
Sunmi! Hmm! [hisses]
[in Pidgin] Riski, please stop this. I've told you that I don’t like it.
-[in Yoruba] Why are you begging her? -[in Pidgin] I’m just telling her.
I don’t want any problem. Leave me and my woman alone.
[in Yoruba] Didn’t you hear him call me his baby?
Move yourself and your chest out of here.
[splutters] [in Pidgin] Sunmi, is she talking to me like that?
Why won’t she talk to you like that?
Sunmi, don’t you want all of this?
[in Yoruba] Do you want to breastfeed him?
Do you want to breastfeed him? Why are you putting your breasts in his face?
-He said you should move away from him. -Stop it!
-Ha! Egun girl! -[Todowede spluttering]
[Riski] Egun girl! Sunmi, you and I will end up together.
-Wherever you are from… -Sunmi can you see all these?
Don’t tear your clothes. It’s not even your size.
Scandalous dresser! Bastard!
[in Pidgin] Ignore her.
[in Yoruba] Leave me alone. Why were you begging her?
I didn't do anything.
But you saw that I didn't do anything.
[in Yoruba] You ought to have shoved her off.
[laughter] Ah, ah!
[in Pidgin] I've caught you. [chuckles]
Go ahead, say something…um, [tuts] talk.
[in Pidgin] Sir, we're not buying rat poison or whatever it is you’re selling.
Go away. What do you want?
[in Igbo] Me? Man,
forget that! On a normal day, I would have fought you.
But em, time is money. [chuckles] Hmm?
[in Pidgin] Wait? Todowede, do you know him?
[in Yoruba] I don’t know why I’m having so much bad luck today.
Maybe it’s this table.
That unfortunate being came here and she’s gone. Now this one.
Listen, Callitus,
do you want to be doomed?
Are you accursed? No, you're accursed.
What’s the meaning of this?
You said that I’m not classy. Seki and Amuda have duped you.
Why am I the one you are calling your girlfriend?
Are you cursed?
Ehen! [chuckles] I think I know the problem.
Is it, em, because of this one?
Or because he's speaking English? "I wanna, gonna".
Let me tell you, this one is not gonna marry you.
[snickering] He's not even gonna take care of you.
He's only going to use you and dump you.
Don't make a mistake. Do you understand.
[in Pidgin] Okay that’s enough. You know what? Leave here!
[music playing in the background ]
[in Pidgin] Your voice isn’t intimidating enough.
Seriously, it isn’t intimidating enough to scare me.
I thought you where going to do something.
[in Igbo] Get out! Get out of my way.
-Who are you? -Who am I?
Who are you?
[in Pidgin] I said, leave! this place. Are you crazy?!
-Hey! [titters] -Are you mad?!
-[Callitus] Hmm! Em, Todo… -[Riski] What's happening here?
-[Todowede] No! -[Sunmi] No, are you crazy?
[Callitus] Is it me you're talking to?
[voices rise]
-[Todo shrieks] Hey! -[Sunmi in Pidgin] Where is he?
[fighting and commotion continues]
[laughter] As in what…
[in Yoruba] Even though you're a rich kid but you're also a hoodlum.
Look at how you broke a bottle!
[in Pidgin] What about you?
What about you? The way you lifted Riski up and threw her down.
Where, where are you from?
[in Yoruba] Strength is not about size. I can beat anybody.
I’m not like that elephant.
-Where is my girlfriend? God, please! -[cackles]
[in Pidgin] Listen, we're never doing this again. We’re never fighting again.
Ouch! Ow!
-Hey, sorry. -[hisses]
What happened?
[in Yoruba] I think that bad girl hit me.
[in Yoruba] Next time you should be alert and guard your face.
[both laughing]
-Let me get a balm for you. -Okay
Ow! Ooh, ooh, ooh!
-[in Yoruba] What's wrong? -Ah, my knee!
[in Pidgin] That your boyfriend hit me on my knee.
[in Yoruba] I don’t like it when you call him my boyfriend!
Weren’t you showing off kung fu techniques?
-I was fighting for you. -Until someone beat you to a pulp.
-You even broke a bottle. Rubbish! -Oh, my leg. Tsk.
Lay down so I can help you massage it with shea butter.
Okay.
Thank you baby.
[deep sigh]
-Lie down. Let me help you do it. -No, no, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
Okay, where does it hurt?
Everywhere, my ears, my head, my neck, my…
-Did they hit you here? -Here.
["Energy" by Mimz playing]
[in Pidgin] There's a lot of money here.
[in Yoruba] Outrageous amount of money.
[in Pidgin] That's what I've been trying to explain to you. There's no money here.
All the money you are getting is nothing, bro.
See, I'm the one that does delivery so I see and know about everything, boss.
Just a little packaging and branding will take us to the next level.
Wait, wait. I don’t really understand what you are saying.
I've not got it yet.
[in Yoruba] Explain properly so that I can know what you are saying.
[in Pidgin] Okay, let me… See, for example now,
-These are different types of bread. -Okay.
The rich eat this one. and the poor eat this one.
The only difference is the packaging.
The only difference is the packaging, bro.
Look, if we can get a shop in Ogba, eh?
And start baking coconut bread, strawberry flavored bread,
agbalumo bread and any other flavored bread you wish to make.
Boss, you will be shocked at what your turnover would be.
Ah!
[in Yoruba] Um, you’re smart. That’s a good idea but…
it will cost a lot of money.
[in Pidgin] I will have to invest a lot of money in that.
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] Boss, forget that. You have the money.
[in Pidgin] Bro, stop being modest.
Why are you being modest? All the money you spend on Amaka, Chinyere, Chidinma.
[in Yoruba] No, don’t go there. I don't like that. Those are my girls!
You know that they help me relax whenever I’m tense.
[in Pidgin] I understand. You need to relax.
But bro, let me be honest with you,
I've been saving from the little money I earn here.
Really?
In two months, it'll be my turn to collect our cooperative's monthly contribution.
If you bring your own money and we start a partnership
we’ll go to microfinance banks for loans
and we’ll get a shop.
[in Yoruba] Well done. You’re really smart.
[in Yoruba, Pidgin] This means you've made all the plans
before laying them out to me.
[in Pidgin] You treat me like a brother so I won’t lie to you.
That’s why I want us to do this together.
I won’t lie to you or put you in any kind of trouble.
Think about it.
[in Yoruba] No problem. Since you have explained to me
and I've understood the plan,
after I get home and had a good time resting with my girls,
I’ll get back to you.
-[hailing] Show them! Agege Bruce Lee! -Oh! Ah! [laughs]
-["Sise" by Femi Leye playing] -[silent dialogue]
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[laughter]
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[in Yoruba] It’s not up to three months that you built that shed for me.
[in Pidgin] But they’ve approved the loan.
They've approved the loan. I have found the perfect place.
Ah! [hisses]
The perfect place! If you see this place. See,
[in Pidgin] Jugunu is cursed, he will never leave Agege.
But you, on the other hand, can leave.
-[in Yoruba] Why? -[in Pidgin] Because I know you want more.
-[sighs] -I know you want more.
[in Pidgin] And this is our ticket to get out of here.
[hisses] [in Yoruba] Sunmi, let me tell you something.
No, no, no. No!
Eh? Why?
See, [sniffling] I need you.
I need you.
[in Pidgin] I need someone who is experienced.
Someone inside the bakery making sure everything is going smoothly.
While I’m outside handling marketing. I need you.
[deep sigh]
What you are feeling right now is called fear.
You shouldn’t let it win.
I have spoken to Jugunu and he has agreed that our new place
will be called Grace’s Bakery.
Yes, after you.
[in Pidgin] Let's do this.
-[in Yoruba] Swear. [giggles] -I swear.
[laughing]
[Fuji Apala music praising Todowede playing]
[screams, laughter]
[in Yoruba] Let me drink first.
Okay, take a sip. Ehn!
[chuckles] I knew it! I was saying it that there's no…
[in Yoruba] There's too much sugar in it.
[hisses] You've come again with this your wahala now.
There's no way it would happen and there won't be success.
[in Yoruba] See, I don't believe it.
-We sold out. -I knew.
I had a very, very good feeling about this thing from the beginning.
[in Pidgin] I knew it will be okay.
-[chuckles] -[in Yoruba] I want to tell you something.
-What? -I just didn’t tell you all this while.
Iskilu told me something. He said,
[in Pidgin] "That boy is a 'gee'."
And he was right! You really are a gee.
You’re a good person.
Why do you get sad whenever your family is mentioned?
Do you want to go back to them?
You don't understand. You know what, just… [hisses]
You don't understand. Like, that…
You don't understand. At least, it would have been nice if…
[in Pidgin] It would have been nice if at least one of them was there for me.
[sighs]
-Let’s go and see them tomorrow. -No!
I think we should visit them so you can see--
[in Pidgin] Todo, what are you saying?
Didn't I tell you what they did?
They spat on me, called dogs on me.
They sent me out like I was a thief.
[in Yoruba] This will be different.
-We'll go together-- -No, no!
Calm down.
[in Pidgin] No, stop it! I'm telling you how I feel. You keep saying…
They’re my family, that’s why it hurts.
-[in Yoruba] Let me do this for you. -No!
What's wrong with you? It's my family I'm talking about here.
I'm telling you I know people. You're telling something else.
No!
[wistful music playing]
[in Pidgin] Do you know Sunmi? He’s tall, big and black.
Which Sunmi?
Mommy’s son.
-Oh, Sunmi sent you? -No, no!
-Wait, Sunmi sent you here. -No, no I want to see Mommy.
-You want to see Mommy? -Yes, Mommy.
Or you want to see Sunmi or Sunmi sent you here.
[in Yoruba] This is an unfortunate being.
Em, it's okay. I'm coming. You're welcome. You want to see Sunmi, right?
-Mommy. I want to see Mommy. -And Sunmi sent you. You are welcome.
-I'm coming. Please wait for me. -[in Yoruba] He's a crazy being.
-Rambo! Sniper! -[dogs barking]
-[shrieking] -[uptempo music playing]
[shrieking] [in Yoruba] I’m in trouble! Help!
-What happened? What happened? -Help, help!
-[in Yoruba] Should I stop? -[Sunmi] Come!
This is the place.
Ahn-ahn!
Not the whole house!
-[chuckles] -It's just, it's just…
[in Yoruba] I was wondering.
If you wash your clothes you can hang them there.
-You can play ball here. -[chuckles]
-Really? -Yeah!
-[in Yoruba] This is nice. -Thank you so much.
-I'm now a big boy. [chuckles] -[laughs]
-Ahn-ahn! -Hmm!
[in Yoruba] Sunmi, this place is really big.
Hmm!
-Eh? -[in Pidgin] I knew you'd like it.
[in Yoruba] Ahn-ahn, you are also repainting the walls!
Well done.
You're even painting all the walls!
I said, you know, let me be doing it bit by bit.
After sometime, everywhere will be alright.
-I will buy a television set. -Really?
[in Yoruba] Ah, how many rooms are here?
Em, it's three rooms.
Eh?
[in Yoruba] Why do you act like this? Can you sleep in all three rooms?
You ought to have rented a mini flat.
[mimicking] Don’t you know that I won’t stay alone?
[in Yoruba] Okay, will you be sharing the apartment with Jugunu?
No.
[in Pidgin] Look, you and I will live together.
Don’t come back.
Mm-hmm, I want us to live together. Come.
-[laughs] -Listen, listen.
I want you to live here with me.
I want you to be my wife.
We’ll have four babies and we’ll live here forever.
[in Yoruba] I'm not interested in your proposition. Please leave me.
What are you saying? I'm serious, now.
[in Yoruba] Sunmi, I’m not interested.
You know I don’t like cohabiting. [hisses]
-[in Pidgin] I know you’re crazy. I know. -There you go!
But I like you like that.
I’m in love with your crazy side.
[in Yoruba] Sunmi, I don’t understand English.
Marry someone who understands English.
[in Pidgin] It’s not about English.
Okay yes, your English is not too good.
But your smarter than me. Eh?
You're much smarter than I am.
And I have learnt a lot from you.
-Sunmi? -Yes?
[in Pidgin] Don’t overthink it. What I just want you to say now,
in English is,
"Yes Sunmi, I will be your wife."
The End.
[chuckles]
[in Yoruba] Go down on both knees. That’s how it’s done.
-I should kneel down? -Yes.
-[chuckles, claps] -[in Yoruba] Go down on one knee.
No, I’ll use the two legs.
[in Yoruba] Where’s the ring?
[in Pidgin] There’s no ring for now. We’ll save up and buy a ring.
Just say yes.
[in Yoruba] You want to propose marriage and you didn't come with a ring?
Just say yes.
[in Yoruba ] I’ll think about it.
You will marry me?
[in Yoruba] I’ll go and think about it at home.
No, it has to be now.
[in Pidgin] You want to turn me down.
[in Pidgin] After I have knelt down for you.
-[laughs] -[laughing] I won’t talk to you again.
[in Yoruba] Okay, I accept.
-You will marry me? -[in Yoruba] I accept.
Say, "I will marry you."
[in Yoruba] I accept. Don't make me bite my tongue.
-[laughing] Thank you baby! -[in Yoruba] Don't shout.
I love you so much.
[screams] Yeah, she said she'll marry me!
[in Yoruba] Don't shout,
so that people won’t hear what just happened.
[humming]
Hey! Hello?
[in Pidgin] I've been running to meet up. You've not closed.
[in Yoruba] How much bread do you want?
Em, give me… [in Igbo] What did you say?
[in Pidgin] What type of bread do you want to buy?
Give me two loaves of wheat bread. The sliced one.
White one. Two.
Then do you have the fruit bread roll?
-Yes. -Give me two packets.
-Ah, Sunmi! -[Sunmi] Yes?
[in Yoruba] Bring that fruit bread.
A customer wants to buy it.
-How much? -[Sunmi] Okay.
[in Yoruba] The price in total is 1570 naira.
-[Sunmi] How many? -[in Yoruba] Bring two.
-You don’t want to buy biscuit? -No.
-What about groundnut? -No.
-We have chin-chin. -[impatiently] I said, no!
[in Pidgin] I keep counting my money over and over again.
-[hiss] -[in Yoruba] I’m sorry.
Ah! The customer is even lucky. There are only two left.
-[in Yoruba] Two just remaining for you. -Here you go!
Sunmi?
-[claps] Hey! -Hey, Aunty Agy, don't touch me.
-Aunty Agy? -Sunmi?
Don't touch me. I don't understand. What is it?
[in Pidgin] Sunmi, it’s me Aunty Agy.
[in Pidgin] We have been searching for you but didn't see you.
-We've been looking for him since. -I don't understand.
Sunmi, we've been searching for you.
Your mom has done newspapers and television adverts.
Aunty Agy, please.
Don't call my name. Just take your bread and leave.
[in Yoruba] Ahn-ahn, do you know each other before now?
Yes.
Todowede! These are the people that chased me out of my house.
This is Aunty Agy. I told you about it.
[in Igbo, Pidgin] Hey, me? Chased you out of the house?
[in Pidgin] Sunmi, we didn’t chase you out. You and your mother had a fight.
You had an argument with her. You took your car keys
and drove off.
We've not seen you since then. We've been searching for you--
Hey, Aunty Agy! Listen, I do not want to disrespect you.
-Can you please just shut up? -Sunmi, we have--
No! Because that time you were acting like you did not know me.
I came to the house, this woman, Aunty Agy, you poured pepper on me!
You, you!
-Lie that you didn't pour pepper on me. -[in Igbo] Me?
Lie that you didn't pour pepper on me.
-You that I look-- -Leave me alone. Don't touch me!
She poured pepper on me, called the dogs at me! Aunty Agy, me!
After everything that we've been through.
Please [spluttering] do not call my name.
Please leave. Just leave our shop, please!
-[in Pidgin] I nursed this boy. -[Sunmi in Pidgin] Who did you bathe?
I nursed this boy till his adulthood.
Yet he’s saying that I called, me?
[in Yoruba] He’s telling the truth. When I went to the house,
the security man called the dogs, Sniper and Tiger on me.
[in Igbo, Yoruba] What are you saying?
Sunmi I… See, your mom now has high blood pressure.
Your mother has not been feeling fine.
Your sister has given birth to another baby.
We've been looking for you.
-We've been looking for you for almost… -Five years, three months and 18 days!
Five years, three months and 18 days!
You guys chased me out. You guys left me on the street. I was destitute.
-I was destitute, Aunty-- -[Todowede in Yoruba] Calm down.
No! Listen, you don't understand. You don't understand.
If not for this woman here.
If not for this woman here, I would have been on the streets.
She took me in, she loved me. Meanwhile my family,
my family members left me to live on the road.
And you come here and you feel like you can call my name.
-[Aunty Agy] Let's go home. -See listen, listen to me, okay?
I do not want to disrespect you.
-You don't know me, I do not know you. -I know you.
-I looked after you. -You do not know me, I do not know you.
-[loud beeping] -Where's her bread? No, leave me alone!
-[Sunmi] Take your bread and go! -[Todowode in Yoruba] Sunmi, calm down!
-[beeping gets louder] -Take your bread and go.
I can hear the beep of the…
[suspense music playing]
Hello?
Huh?
[in Yoruba] Ah! Lord, thank you.
You’re the great God!
Thank you, God.
[in Yoruba hailing God] ] He who kills and brings to life!
The King whose garment is fire.
[Aunty Agy singing] ♪ Thank you Jesus The owner of my soul ♪
♪ Alpha Omega You are worthy to be praised ♪
Hey, Sunmi. God bless you.
Jah Jehovah Emmanuel, thank you Jesus.
Madam!
-He's awake! He's awake! -My son is awake! My son is awake!
-[in Pidgin] Sunmi is awake. -[Mrs. Cole in Yoruba ] Thank you Lord!
-Amen! -Sunmisola, my dear.
Sunmisola, my dear.
-Hey, he's awake. [laughing excitedly] -Mommy's here. He's awake. Sunmisola.
[both laugh in jubilation]
Sunmi? [in Yoruba] Sorry, my dear.
-Sunmi? -This is Mommy.
-See Mommy. Sunmi? -Yes, Mommy.
Where's my wife?
-[heart monitor beeps] -[softly] Wife?
[in Pidgin] He has been saying that all along.
-He's dreaming, he's dreaming. -I hope he's dreaming.
Where is Todowede, my wife?
[in Yoruba] Ha, I’m in trouble!
Madam, you know he's been sleeping for a long while.
-It's not Todo. It's Mommy. -Yes, Sunmi.
-No, no, don't [screams] -Sunmi, wait!
Where's my wife?
You drove out in anger.
The very next morning,
we got a call
that you were in an accident.
[heart monitor beeps]
-You have been in a coma. -For how long?
Almost 16 days.
So I've been here all along?
Yes but, but,
but Aunty Agy and I, we come here to see you every other day.
In fact, she comes everyday.
So,
so you didn't disown me?
Disown you?
[in Yoruba] I reject that.
No!
Why will I disown you? You're my son.
I love you, no matter what.
Sunmi, look at me.
No matter what! Ah, I can't disown you.
I don't understand.
Me too.
What about…
[hesitating] Todowede?
-And… -[sighs]
and… the [spluttering] bakery?
Bakery? What… what or who is this Todowede?
Whether this is a he or a she?
What is this thing with who?
She's my wife.
Your wife?
And we…
and we stayed together.
-And we loved each other. -Ah!
[in Yoruba] That’s a spiritual wife.
And she took care of me.
Do you want me to have hypertension?
Do you want me to just… to, to…
[in Yoruba] Pity me, please.
Stop doing this.
You know what?
You have been through so much.
-[groaning] Todowede. -[sighs]
[sighs]
I don't think there's anything to worry about.
It is not unusual.
So, you're telling me that it's all just a dream?
And that there's nothing wrong with his brain?
[chuckles]
He can recognize you, can't he?
Yes, he can.
Just that he can't recall, he can't remember the accident.
-Just yet. [chuckles] -Yes.
It's fine.
Em, all the tests we carried out so far show that everything is okay.
It's not unusual for patients in a coma to have such experiences.
It is actually a testament to the activity of the brain
that we saw on monitor while he slept.
So, you give him all his drugs and he'll fully recover.
-Thank you doctor, I'm really relieved. -He'll fully recover.
I had a whole family.
There was Jugunu, who was the owner of the bakery.
[Sunmi] He was so nice to me.
And then there was Nolan, he was a rapper
and Riski-Baby who used to sell rice, and…
And then there was this guy, his name is "care who care for you."
And he cared for me so much, for me.
Mommy, I don't…
I don't understand the love they showed me because I had nothing.
[sighs] And then,
there was Todowede.
She loved me unconditionally, Mommy.
She fought for me.
She gave me a home to sleep in.
[sighs] I remember this picnic that we had on the roof top,
the ghetto.
And I don't remember ever being so happy.
Mommy, I want to go back.
-[Mrs. Cole and Aunty Agy] No. -[Sunmi sobbing]
-[in Yoruba] God forbids that. -You can't go back.
Mommy, please I just need that your coconut rice. That's what I need.
Okay, I'm going to tell Aunty Agy to make it.
-No, I want you to make it. Ahn-ahn! -[chuckles]
-No. -No, it's your own I want, please.
-[chuckling] Why? -Why not?
[Todowede] Buy butter bread!
-Aunt Agy is a good-- -Todowede!
-Todowede, what's that? -Man, stop!
Stop this, son. Son, come on. It's just a dream.
Mommy, if it's a dream, why am I looking at her right now?
Where?
Sorry.
Careful! Oh my goodness!
-[Sunmi] Todowede? Todowede? -[Todo] Todowede's butter--
Wait.
[soft music playing]
Wait, your name is actually Todowede?
[in Yoruba] Ahn-ahn, aren’t you Iskilu's friend?
[chortling]
Em, okay listen, em…
Please can I call you?
Ahn-ahn! [in Pidgin] For what?
Okay, you know what? Can I buy bread, please?
Can you come to the house tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and ask for Sunmi?
Please, I want to buy bread.
[in Yoruba] I don’t have time for this rubbish.
How much bread do you want to buy that you want me to come to your house?
Why can’t you buy it here?
-I don’t want nonsense. -No I'm not, I'm not… [laughs]
[in Yoruba] I'm not misbehaving. [in English] I'm actually being serious.
Can you… Wait, you don't remember…
You don't remember me?
-[sighs] -You know what? Please come to the house
at 9:00 a.m. Ask for Sunmi.
Em, I want to buy all the bread that you have in the morning.
-[Hiss] Fine bu-- -Okay?
-Ahn-ahn! -Sorry. I'm sorry.
[in Yoruba] I thought you said you’re serious.So why are you touching me?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Please, 9:00 a.m.
[Todowede] Fine butter bread!
Todowede's butter bread!
["Sise" by Femi Leye playing]
[Sunmi] Listen,
Mommy, you know you always say, you always say that…
you know, I should find a way to make something meaningful out of life?
Yes?
I think, I mean, it might not make sense, but…
when I was in that coma,
I feel like God reset my brain.
[Sunmi laughs]
Now I know what I want to do.
I'm glad.
So, what do you want to do?
Um,
okay, I'm just going to say it.
I want to start a bakery.
I want to start baking, selling bread, pastries, you know…
Make it like a whole franchise.
-What do you know about baking? -Ah! Mommy, [chuckling]
it will shock you what I know. I know everything.
I know how to bake it. I know how to sell it.
I know how to package it. I know how to make…
I literally know how to mix the flour and make the dough and…
I'm not doing it alone as well. I have a…
a partner and she's really--
And I'm guessing that there is also
[both] Todowede.
-She's, she's so brilliant and… -[knock on the door]
Come.
And I feel like with both of us coming together, we can,
-we can definitely make like a-- -Er, sorry. Sorry, ma.
Sunmi, there's a lady outside that's looking for you.
She said that her name is Todowede.
-Ha! -Yes.
-Can I? -Yeah!
["Sise" by Femi Leye playing ]
Translated by Ayo Koiki