A story about Lagos, Nigeria and the people who used to live in it: an unemployed family man struggling to keep life and love together, a crooked policeman with a dark, violent past and an even darker future, a disenchanted youth with a cannabis-drenched philosophy and a diabolic mission, a British fun-seeker who sees a promise of gold underneath all the garbage, a migrant from the violent, oil-rich swamplands who came to the city seeking succor but alas all he reaps is more pain, an eponymous drifter from the hot, dozy and desert north, who must now aggressively protect his simple soul and subsequently his new bride from the madness all around, a ghost that refused to die, and many millions more, perpetually awaiting the manifestation of elusive financial miracles.
