In the midst of this, Chibundu returns and wants to court Ijeoma. This act of arson kills Ndidi’s friend, while other gay friends of theirs are killed in other locations. Ndidi introduces Ijeoma to the underground LGBT+ community they congregate at a building that is a church during the day and a gay dance club at night. Ijeoma is working in her mother’s shop in Aba when she meets Ndidi, a secondary school teacher. When they graduate, Amina gets engaged to be married to a Hausa boy.
However, after a nightmare, Amina refuses to date Ijeoma and begins to date men. Eventually, Ijeoma and Amina reunite at the Girls’ Academy, a boarding school. Several months in Aba are devoted to Bible lessons as Adaora tries to exorcise the “demon” of Ijeoma’s sexuality. One day, the teacher discovers them making love and sends Ijeoma to live with her mother in Aba. The teenagers work as housegirls and fall in love. In Nnewi, Ijeoma finds Amina, a Hausa girl, under an udala tree and brings her home to live with the grammar school teacher and his wife. Right before she leaves, her childhood friend Chibundu kisses her in an orange tree. After her father Uzo is killed in an air raid, her mother, Adaora, sends Ijeoma to live with a grammar school teacher in Nnewi. Our first-person narrator Ijeoma is a young Igbo girl living in Ojoto during the Nigerian Civil War.
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