Onye Ozi / The Messenger
2013, 89 minutes
A naïve Nigerian man excitedly joins his fiancée in the UK after years apart, believing that formidable success awaits him in London.
Obi Emelonye follows up the hugely successful 2012 film LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA and the seminal multi award winning THE MIRROR BOY with a first-of-its-kind Nigerian language film; set in London, performed exclusively in Igbo language (by Nigerian and British actors) and subtitled in English. Metumaribe (Okey Bakassi) has just arrived in London with high expectations and a two-year plan to return to Nigeria a rich man. However, life in London with his new wife Mkpurunma (Ngozi Igwebike) is not going to plan. On a fateful night, TJ an old English man (Stephen Moriaty) is chased, by some masked men, into a party organized to welcome Metu to London and shot in front of his eyes. As partygoers run away, Metu attempts to help the man. The dying man squeezes an envelope and a bunch of keys into Metu’s hand and whispers a message as he takes his last breath. From that point on, Metu is involved. And no matter how much he runs from it or how long it takes; he knows he must deliver the message as he promised. Now his two-year plan has become a psychological adventure that will change his life and the lives of those around him forever.
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