When her white, former colonial administrator father, James dies in Nigeria in 2015, Elizabeth is alarmed as family secrets come tumbling loose. In Manchester, her black Nigerian mother, Ade is poised between grief and good riddance. As three generations of the family make preparations to attend James's funeral, Elizabeth's intimate relationship with her partner implodes, her teen daughter runs off to live with an older married man, and her mother Ade looks lost to a combination of festering memory and incipient senility.