Dioni Vision, an Omoni Oboli Film, presents, Omoni Oboli (Lara), Majid Michel (Bill), Ay Ayo Makum (Isawuru), Lepacious Bose (Bimpe), Uru Eke (Fisayo), Seun Akindele (Efe), Sylva Oluchy (Nonye), Chika Chukwu (Adaeze), Ada Lewis Egbosi (Wendy). Story/ screenplay, Omoni Oboli; Director of Photography, John Demps; Producers, Omoni Oboli/ Nnamdi Oboli; Executive Producers, Omoni Oboli/Nnamdi Oboli; Director, Omoni Oboli. © 2014.
Being Mrs. Elliot could be hard. She’s not too friendly and doesn’t like her husband’s relative’s kids and she’s compulsive, so not everyone could be her, or impersonate her. And when she and a perfect stranger had rented a taxi from the airport to Lagos, a stranger she had rented her wedding band for the ride to Lagos, and both have incurred a fatal accident. Mrs. Elliot had lost her senses while the other occupant got an eighty percent burn. Lara’s (Omoni Oboli) husband, Bill (Majid Michel) got in his car to chase after his wife back to Lagos after he’s caught with his secretary, Nonye (Silva Oluchy) in a hotel room.
Bill gets to the scene of the accident and identifies Fisayo (Uru Eke) as his wife, Lara (Omoni Oboli). You bet from the wedding band because the face and the body he looks at is completely burnt out. The burnt-out lady is taken to the hospital and Bill asks for a complete facial reconstruction surgery, which is done. Being not Mrs. Elliot, Fisayo, couldn’t recognize her husband, Mr. Elliot’s wards, and Mrs. Elliot’s friends Adaeze (Chika Chukwu) and Wendy (Ada Lewis -Egbosi). Even when her husband takes her out to places where they met for the first time, she couldn’t recognize any of them.
Bill, “Lara, this is the first place we came on our date, remember? We had so much fun in that corner, we didn’t want to go home. You forgot?”
Lara (Omoni Oboli) has been found by a village herbalist Isawuru (Ay, Ayo Makum) at the accident scene and brings her home to the village of Ekiti. Isawuru had always told his fellow villagers that God is sending him a beautiful wife who could be respected by the entire village, and this could be it. She’s blessed, not to have sustained bodily injury from the accident but she lost her conscience and her mind temporarily, about her whereabouts and how she ends up in a place like Etiki. Isawuru names her Angelica. With the new name, a new man claiming to be a husband, she gradually comes to herself in her delusion that this is real. She and Isawuru start to enjoy each other. He teaches her how to cook and live a domesticated pastoral life.
They even sleep together and do what a man and wife could do in bed.By now, both Lara and Fisayo trade places, and their statuses in life. Fisayo manages to impersonate Lara in Lagos as Mrs. Elliot, while Lara tries hard to catch up on the new relationship with this strange character, Isawuru, called husband.
Such is the situation for the two households: The Bill Elliot household in Lagos, and Isawuru household in Ekiti village. And the story continues from here.
When Bill shall have come to notice that Fisayo isn’t his wife, he doesn’t feel happy because she has proved to be a better wife than Lara. To him the whole experience is like the wet dream David (Majid Michel) is having about Chantel (Jackie Appiah) in Who Loves Me? (2003) when he blasts at his mother for waking him up. He wants to ride the experience with Fisayo and pretend to the end of his life that she’s Lara. You notice when he and Lara are in bed and she asks Bill if he’s expecting her, “to believe that you thought it was me? We don’t even look alike.” He covers his ears with the pillow. That shows Bill’s revolt and denial. Life with Fisayo is well and good especially she accepts the kids he has adopted which Lara couldn’t.
Back in the village of Ekiti, Angelica (Lara) is having a ball in their pastoral life, and when she comes back to Bill Elliot, she doesn’t feel comfortable anymore. She has learned to cook egusi soup, learn how to lick her fingers as she eats, and how Isawuru worships her feet in the stream and teaches her traditional dance and loving it. She had come to find her usefulness in the village; helps plaid their hairs, draws water for them, and most of them appreciate her kindness and generosity with, “Kusheh.” She noticed a long time before the accident that she and Bill weren’t happy anymore, so she finally gives Bill’s happiness back to him. When this chance with a village herbalist arises, she bets her life on it, packs her things, leaves a letter on his pillow, and walks out forever for Ekiti.
When we are presented with such a mistaken identity movie, it gets complicated when we come to the final revelations of the true identities, and though, the screenwriter manages the greater plots to the finish line, certain minor story plot threads remain unresolved. Fisayo’s husband is shot in her presence over an oil deal and being a witness, the culprits didn’t want her live but dead. She goes on the run and fortunately runs into Lara and both jointly take a cab to Lagos. On their way, Lara temporarily gave her wedding band to Fisayo since she so admired the ‘rock.’ Not long, they have the wreck.
Fisayo has a brush with the murderer of her fiancé at the restaurant when she goes out with Mr. Bill Elliot but she forces him for them to get out of there before being recognized. If that plot thread has no more life to it, we have no reason to run back into the murderer, even as it comes out in the interview with Mr. Eliot that the murderer was arrested. That exposition is just a blip on the screen compared to the importance of the incident. Then too, she has constant nightmares about the dead fiancé and how he was shot. Then too, she recalls her dead fiancé talks about insurance she keeps in the dropbox. “I save all my little insurance papers in your dropbox.” These are instances, the screenwriter is dropping on our laps for us to keep thinking about that something will come out of, but nothing happens, even as we understand that the culprit was arrested.
The resolution of this story is perfect. Lara gets what she wants by going back to Ekiti and marrying the herbalist who found her on the side of the road at the scene of the accident, and Fisayo, after one year, runs into Mr. Elliot at the airport and he finds that she has had a baby girl for him. He kneels and asks for her hand in marriage.