"You will marry the crown prince!You must.I will not let you disgrace me,you insolent child!"
"But Mama,I do not love him."
"Love?My naive daughter,love doesn't put food on the table but power does.And you my child will gain lots and lots of it "
Apekeola finds herself bethrothed to the crown prince of her village who is nothing but a stiff wood to her but everybody wants to be in his good books ,so nobody has the guts to speak about his attitude.
Meanwhile, Apekeola falls for Michael ,a foreign miner who arrives as a result of the discovery of oil.
Will she succeed in following her heart or will she give in to the whims of her mother.