Below is the Synopsis and the Official Trailer:
Weaving together the lives of four
people swept up in the turbulence of war. Olanna (Newton) and Kainene
(Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Returning to a
privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their
expensive English education, the two women make very different choices.
Olanna shocks her family by going to
live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (Ejiofor)
and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (Boyega) in the dusty university town of
Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when
she takes over the family interests, and surprises herself when she
falls in love with Richard (Mawle) an English writer.
Preoccupied by their romantic
entanglements, and a betrayal between the sisters, the events of their
life loom larger than politics. However, they become caught up in the
events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an
impassioned struggle to establish Biafra an independent republic, ending
in chilling violence which shocked the entire country and the world.
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