 On the wedding night he discovers that he is incapable of consummating the marriage; he has become impotent.At the beginning, he suspects that one or both of his first two wives have put the spell on him, without realizing that he walks by the true guilty party every day (beggars and people he has stolen from).The film criticizes the African leaders' attitude after Independence, underlining their greed and their inability to step away from foreign influences.