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When someone deliberately walks out of your life, let them go. However long the separation takes, reunion is inevitable irrespective of circumstances. Adoyo is left an orphan at the age of eleven after her parents die in a gruesome road accident. Fleeing from her cruel aunt, she gets a job as a maidservant in the coastal town of Uzima. She meets Katana Fufu, who convinces her to leave her job and elope with him. He marries her at a tender age.
Katana dumps Adoyo and their infant baby girl Chiriku as he escapes to an undisclosed location. Adoyo’s life makes an astounding turnaround when she unexpectedly meets an old Polish couple at the coastal beach of Perete Island. Twelve years later, she returns to the same Island as a tourist. Katana runs into his daughter Chiriku. Will he recognise her?
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