Believing he can fly, the ten year old Ephraim jumps from a storey building. The three members of the Olorunyomi family experience this suicide differently. And has to navigate through it's grief. They try to hold onto a sense of family, but the death in the family separate them, and then bring them together. Told through multiple first person narrative, "Happiness is a Sickle kinikan in my belly" is one's family search for happiness in the face of overwhelming forces.