A Ghanaian surgeon in London, returns to his homeland to seek out his mother. She is living with another man after the death of her husband. She does not realise that it is her son who has come to their shack seeking shelter for the night and the elderly couple plan to murder him, taking him for a wealthy young man. She receives a shock when the young man reveals that he knows about the circumstances leading to his father's death - murder by his mother's lover.