Love expression and promotion quests turn to death wishes for a lecturer in an atmosphere of envy, hate, deception, and academic and libidinous conflicts. Adeoye plans to wed Oyinda, but he must overcome the temptation posed by Nkechi, who crushes on him and tackle the cultist who also wants Oyinda as his wife. In the process, he gets implicated in the rape and murder of Oyinda’s flatmate Jumai. A few months after his release for want of evidence to prosecute, Oyinda catches Adeoye and Nkechi in bed and severs her relationship with him. Twenty-one years later, Adeoye marries Labi after she rejects Akin: Adeoye’s boss. After three years of a childless marriage, Adeoye decides to marry Rotunda once he becomes a professor. Hurting from previous losses to Adeoye, Akin swears to thwart his promotion. Adeoye’s elevation gets aborted just as Rotunda ends their romance. His plan to kill Akin for the setbacks fails and depression sets in. He takes to heavy drinking, vomits, aspirates, and ends up in the hospital, unconscious with severe breathing difficulty. Laboratory tests showed deliberate poisoning caused Adeoye’s coma, but by whom?