[3][4][5] Split into two different chapters, the film revolves around printing shop technician Mofe (Jude Akuwudike) and hairdresser Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams) on their quest for what they anticipate and believe will be a better life on foreign shores.

However, Mofe loses his family, while Rosa fails in taking care of her younger pregnant sister and marries her landlord out of necessity.

Their voice is their own; the camera is mobile when it needs to be, but stands still much of the time, letting the excellent cast build their characters as the events of the film test their endurance.

"[26] Writing in The New Yorker, novelist Teju Cole called it an "artful and luminous film" and "a search for how best to live."

Comparing it to Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood for Love, Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation, and Mati Diop’s Atlantics, he concludes: "It is a testament to Chuko Esiri’s compact and intelligent script that the film moves by its own persuasive logic, feeling neither like a catalogue of miseries nor a sentimental exercise in third-world pluck.