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White Agbada
Ibironke is a Nigerian-American woman who is stagnant in her life and she engages in self destructive behaviors to cope.
Her concerned sister calls her one day, and poses that she join her on a family trip to Nigeria for spiritual assistance. Ibironke is totally against this, and continues to engage in her bad habits. One vice includes a casual relationship with an engaged prospective business partner who has a baby on the way.
Ibironke invites him over to get to the bottom of this issue and their post-sex discussion accelerates into a fight. In the midst of the argument, an ancestor who has dropped Easter eggs all throughout her day makes an appearance in her mirror, terrifying Ibironke. She immediately knows this climatic sighting is a radical call for change, responds by ending her situationship, and changing her mind to join her sister on their life-changing return back home.
Her concerned sister calls her one day, and poses that she join her on a family trip to Nigeria for spiritual assistance. Ibironke is totally against this, and continues to engage in her bad habits. One vice includes a casual relationship with an engaged prospective business partner who has a baby on the way.
Ibironke invites him over to get to the bottom of this issue and their post-sex discussion accelerates into a fight. In the midst of the argument, an ancestor who has dropped Easter eggs all throughout her day makes an appearance in her mirror, terrifying Ibironke. She immediately knows this climatic sighting is a radical call for change, responds by ending her situationship, and changing her mind to join her sister on their life-changing return back home.
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The Gliwensbourg Chronicles - Season 1
Winter 1915, Northern France, a French trench is shelled and all the soldiers are buried, leaving only one survivor. Underground, he manages to crawl out into a hole leading to a tunnel. There begins a journey that takes our soldier to the mysterious village of Gliwensbourg in 1925...
The soldier arrives, amnesiac, in the middle of a booty hunt between clans living reclusively in the marshes, a marsh that has been plagued by a curse for a decade. The loot hidden in a mine during the war is their ticket out, but the threatening presence of mysterious creatures makes underground expeditions perilous...
As one problem never comes alone, an agent of the State arrives in Gliwensbourg to shed light on the County's finances in the midst of a national policy of economic recovery. The noose is tightening around these unsociable people. Lala, the Elder and Shaman of the 'melons' community, warns the soldier about this announced agent of the State whose fate is linked to his own. He absolutely must find out what mission the Djinns have entrusted him with, and the clock is ticking...
The soldier arrives, amnesiac, in the middle of a booty hunt between clans living reclusively in the marshes, a marsh that has been plagued by a curse for a decade. The loot hidden in a mine during the war is their ticket out, but the threatening presence of mysterious creatures makes underground expeditions perilous...
As one problem never comes alone, an agent of the State arrives in Gliwensbourg to shed light on the County's finances in the midst of a national policy of economic recovery. The noose is tightening around these unsociable people. Lala, the Elder and Shaman of the 'melons' community, warns the soldier about this announced agent of the State whose fate is linked to his own. He absolutely must find out what mission the Djinns have entrusted him with, and the clock is ticking...
