Ngaahika Ndeenda
In post-independence Kenya, peasant farmer Kĩgũũnda and his wife Wangeci face a visit from wealthy businessman Kĩoi, whose son has courted their daughter Gathoni. As the family considers a church wedding, Kĩoi uses their land deed to secure a loan, then rejects them when Gathoni returns pregnant and abandoned. Kĩgũũnda and Wangeci lose their land and livelihood, and the household’s private crisis becomes part of a wider struggle against elite exploitation.