The Pilate Guilt

In a moment of carnal weakness, Samuel Ezekwe destroys a historic opportunity to change his life and cannot come to terms with the reality of that loss. Refusing to take responsibility for his part in his fate, he transfers all his disappointments on his wife and children, and all his hope for redemption, on his first daughter, Adaku. When she in turn falls prey to youthful lusts and gets pregnant outside wedlock for a boy who refuses to take any responsibility for it, Samuel sets new limits in paternal cruelty. Hiding behind the pretext of a long discredited and vile custom, Samuel denounces his daughter. This act became for him an avenue and opportunity to unleash the demons he must have kept bottled up in the pits of his personal hell.
Ostracized and destitute, his daughter quickly plunges to the depth of despair where death is preferable to life. It is at this point that life throws her the semblance of a second chance. Although marriage to a vile-tempered invalid is not anything to sing about, Adaku seizes the lifeline with a fierce grip and is determined to make the most of it. Fate smiles at her when Nnamdi, her childhood friend reconnects with her and rekindles the fire of a long-lost hope of romance. But then, she is visited by a second calamity when she falls pregnant again, this time though in wedlock, but by Nnamdi. This is quickly compounded by an inexplicable downturn in her husband's health that eventually results in his death and for which she must take the blame on account of her adultery. Will Adaku survive the shame of being tagged an adulteress and scarlet woman?