Synopsis

Zoar, a respectable Church Elder, Known for his strong moral stance on issues, falls into an affair with Abigah - Simon’s mistress of seven years, who has just survived a knee operation after her 2-year abandonment while battling with Arthritis.

Zoar’s wife, Magdel, an outstanding church leader, intercepts Abigah’s love text; furious she storms out leaving behind her phone. Out of impulse, Zoar picks and scrolls her phone. He gets the shock of his life.

Just to touch on few of the multiple dramatic blow by blows that follow, Zoar not only receives an apology from Jezril, their married junior pastor who admits he has been toying around with Magdel; he disguises as Magdel, and successfully arranges a meet-up date with the church Choir Patron. Like a hot spring out of a spell, revelations after revelation of embarrassing underhand dealings among married faithful keep mushrooming. Paternity tussles and inquiries begin at the Bishop’s office as a leading women guild leader, an aggrieved wife, spins allegations that her reverent husband could have fathered ONE or BOTH of Zoar’s fraternal twins.

Abigah terminates her relationship with Simon as Zoar announces to stakeholders his decision to marry her; Magdel whips their emotions, they take her side, ask her to leave with the children, and attach his salary.

He rescinds his intention, he’s is reconciled to his flame Magdel, notifies Abigah who cries her heart out. A couple of weeks after the Church Executives sentence Jezril and Magdel for misconduct, Jezril’s wife, who stormed out of church 4 years earlier in protest of her husband’s loose character with married faithfuls, intercepts her husband’s fresh love texts exchanges with Magdel – shares them widely in church.

Zoar dissolves his marriage and takes Abigah, Pastor Jezril takes care of Magdel in hiding, withdraws from his wife for a year; his wife leaves with their children. Three relationships destroyed out of dry spells in love, communication and finance.
This story is interwoven with multiple conflicts in other relationships within the neighborhood that end up in crimes of passion, one of which ends one in a suicide.

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