Sokedile is an outsider in this growing town of agrarian Idoani people. Nobody knows who he is or why he came here. He is treated like other vagrants with suspicion and offered little help.

How will he achieve what is customarily improbable? Will he be accepted or turned away if he falls in love with Princess Dejoke. What becomes of his audacity, quiet ambitions, and undeclared aspirations?

Willful ospreys’ fish in waters, no contest, but in a stagnant pond, a visiting fluttering dragonfly with desires to perch on the elegant lily must fight to rest. For before it arrived, there bountifully fed the scarlet beetles!