The Legacy

Abe is a poor, talented orphan in Midwestern USA. He has abandoned law school to pursue his first love, music, but a violent altercation during a performance lands him in jail. There he meets Ezra, a comical and engaging Nigerian deportee who helps him discover the shocking truth about his heritage. Abe learns that his late father was a well-known Nigerian oil millionaire. He learns that by tribal custom, he could instantly be the heir to riches beyond his wildest dreams.Having nothing to lose, and everything to gain, he decides to seek his fortune deep in the slums and jungles of modern-day Nigeria, where he becomes entangled in a desperate and dangerous web of tribal politics, voodoo, and post-colonial greed. His search for inheritance leads him to the oppressed village of oil-rich Azuala, where his very life may be the price he must pay to find himself, the true meaning of his heritage, and the terrible secret of ... THE LEGACY