This Kind of Trouble

<p><i>¿Where are the fragments of the life you have lived?¿</i><br><br><b>2005</b><br><br>In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others¿ memories.<br><br>In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she can remember, by winding her way through a complex family history.<br><br>Though they are no longer the twenty-somethings they once were when they met, and the 40 years that have passed since they last saw one another might suggest they are strangers, there is a deep and unsettling history that has bound them together since long before they were born.<br><br><br><b>1905</b><br><br>A well-respected chief in Umumilo village, Nigeria, Okolo has always followed tradition. Then three of the young village women ¿ including his sister, who follows the white man¿s God ¿