When Imo, who is no saint herself, comes home to find her husband, Bassey, cheating on her, she turns with hesitation to her mother. But a traumatising peppery event from Imo's teenage days is the love-hate backdrop which frames their relationship of recurrent conflict and tough love. And now her mother is ill and may need a kidney transplant. How is Imo going to handle all this? This is a book with unexpected twists and revelations, and a deep, sober moment of devastating realisation.