Caller ID: Unknown

(gentle music)

A diamond in the mud.

(dramatic music)

Mama. (Phone ringing)

- Hello. - Hello.

Hello.

It's me Nkwenti.

Sorry, mama.

Bernard, Bernard.

Where is Bernard?

Bernard?

Good morning.

I would like to speak French.

Nkwenti, never give up, a soldier, soldier.

I am a soldier.

Hello, hello?

Hello?

Nkwenti, what you dey always talk about city?

You don't even know how things them dey for this side.

I hear say life over-strong for there.

See, people life different for here oo.

We get farm there, we dey sell for market.

Beauty salon them no lack,

if you want make (Awah speaks in foreign language)

look like city girls.

In fact, schools them dey.

Awah, why do you want to design your life around here,

around this village with so many limitations,

when there's life happening out there?

Look, yes, I know this is our root,

yes, but then a tree must grow.

A tree must grow and produce fruit, not just fruit,

very good fruit.

We not get trees for here?

I beg, leave me outta your big, big grammar.

Talk to me, me too I fit understand.

I'll keep speaking the big grammar, yes.

I make sure to learn day by day

so that I can improve my vocabulary.

The number you are trying

to dial is unavailable.

Your call is being forwarded to a voicemail.

The number you are trying to dial.

Hello, yes.

It's Nkwenti.

I randomly dialed it.

Nkwenti.

Please, please, sir, please.

I'm stuck in the forest, I'm lost.

Hello (Essono speaks in foreign language)

Yes, I'm still here.

Yes (Nkwenti speaks in foreign language)

No, I'm in the Southwest.

Yes.

Why are you (Essono speaks in foreign language)

I mean (Essono speaks in foreign language)

Please, I have to go.

I have to go.

Hello, hello.

Ojong.

Nkwenti.

Oh my God, you scared me.

I'm all alone.

Me I think say all men don vanish,

wet in you dey do for here?

What is happening over there?

Nkwenti, give man that your grammar.

See, you no know say war dey village?

I know, I just, I do wanna know the situation.

War thing don (Ojong speaks in foreign language)

War thing don worse.

Village don empty, people them dey die, Nkwenti.

I no fit even count the number of die body

that I want see am for road, I dey come for here.

You see my mommy?

Nkwenti, just pray say,

make your mommy no still dey village,

because if she still dey for village, forget.

Because thing wey I don see am for that side,

na war film, Nkwenti.

All thing don (Ojong speaks in foreign language)

People they don scatter, houses don burn,

and man dey run.

Nkwenti, life no dey.

Leave am, leave am, leave am.

Make we go.

Make we go from here first, you hear now.

Make we move here, make we go.

Come, come, come.

Nkwenti (Ojong speaks in foreign language)

(crowd screaming)

Please, this is not the time for this.

We have to go.

I say, wet in una dey do again for here?

Mami Ngo, please help me, please.

Mom, mom.

Mami Ngo is here, you say wet in?

I no fit even walk.

Where?

Asher, how you go do now?

No, don't leave we here.

Nkwenti, Nkwenti, I've left you.

Go away (speaks in foreign language)

Nkwenti, make we go.

Them no fit kill me.

Make we go, make we go.

- Nkwenti, go. - Make we go.

Make we go, make we go.

(dramatic music)

Nkwenti, Nkwenti, wake up, wake up.

Wake up, make we go.

No, I no dey go.

Wetin, wet in, you mean?

You no dey go, how?

Ojong.

Nkwenti, Nkwenti, come.

Stand still.

You no hear the thing wey I tell you yesterday?

If you remain for here, you go die.

I understand.

See, see, no be time this for dey talk grammar, Nkwenti.

I dey beg you, come pass, we go.

We go, we go.

Come, make we go.

I'm not leaving.

I said I'm not leaving.

Nkwenti, no man no dey village again.

I dey tell you say even your mommy dey, make we forget am.

If you remain for here, you go die.

I beg you, mami, come make we go.

Come make we go.