[3] Amna is a young woman that witnesses the death of her older sister by her uncle, who had abandoned her family and left them with no support.

She seeks revenge from the engineer who swayed her sister and lied to her thus causing her death.

Amna moves to his house to work as a maid and tries to poison him several times, but all her plans fail.

The poor girl thinks that by not resisting him anymore and pretending to love him, she would be able to destroy his life.

In 2020, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian named The Nightingale's Prayer as the 19th-greatest African film of all time, calling it "an extravagant revenge melodrama, or Beauty-and-the-Beast fable.