The Rioting Graves

Ekwulu and his brother Orji are born twins when their native land forbids the birth of twins. Twins are seen as bad omen. They are fated to die by abandonment in an evil forest that houses everything that is called evil in the eyes of the natives.

However, favor finds them worthy to live as their cries attract the attention of a mentally challenged woman, Udobuaku, who is also abandoned in the forest for being infected by leprosy; a disease that is seen as punishment from their Gods and has no cure. Her mental challenge is born out of emotional and psychological breakdown she has to pass through in the forest. Isolation!

She reaches out to the spot where the cries are ricocheting from to know what is going on there, and it was there she discovered that they are two newly born babies struggling to have a grip on life. She stretches forth her hands and takes them to her place where she had built her tent, in the heart of the forest that was called evil.

Ubobuaku is raising these two babies with all the care and love she can muster even though her sanity has been tampered with. The twins are growing well until tragedy happens. Orji gets bitten by Udobuaku's pet dog and that gets him infected and this happens when Udobuaku can barely stand up as she was very sick.

Orji becomes so sick that Udobuaku has to abandon her own death and crawls deeper into the bush to look for herbs to treat him, but when she comes back, she meets a dead boy whose twin brother was lying helplessly on his body after crying his soul out to exhaustion. It s a very difficult moment in the lives of these two.

Whose turn is it to look after Ekwulu who is also born with albinism in a time when twins are only born to die?