On June 4th, 1979 in Ghana, the people of a small town hear their new leader, Sergeant Francis Wilberforce, speak for the first time on the radio. Throughout the town, people discuss the news. At the barbershop, laughter abounds; at the teashop, the adults are worried. At night, a parade forms. People rejoice at being freed from capitalism. However, the happiness is cut short when the new government becomes violent. Troops march through the streets, large death counts are rumored, the town lunatics disappear, other people are killed. After one particularly brutal assault, a white owl flutters through town. A religious figure in the town encourages the people to embark on a three-day fast to cleanse their spirits and better equip them for what is to come, but they don’t listen. Still, the owl becomes a sign of the one being that they can depend on to get them through this horrible upheaval: Allah.