[music] Ayid, tell me your husband did not come to a to a family gathering dressed like that.
He is my husband, BC.
He does not need your permission to enter this compound.
Nobody needs permission, Aayomid, but a grown man should know when his appearance embarrasses his wife.
Clothes can embarrass a man only when the man inside them has no dignity.
Enough.
Toby came as family.
We should welcome him before turning my courtyard into a courtroom.
Welcoming him is easy.
Watching Aayom Dechu struggle every day is the part I cannot understand.
I did not marry a salary or a wardrobe.
I married a man whose character I know.
I brought rice, vegetables, and the spices Ayid said you needed.
Thank you, Toby.
Put them inside.
At least carrying groceries is something useful.
Maybe marriage has finally given you steady employment.
Useful work has never offended me.
BC, I would be more worried if pride stopped my hands from working.
Leave the food.
We are going home.
Ayid, don’t leave angry.
Then stop asking me to stay insulted.
You did not have to leave because of me.
I left because disrespect should have a price.
I can endure, BC.
I don’t want my name becoming a wall between you and your family.
You didn’t build that wall.
And now this has stopped again.
Don’t force it.
You’ll damage the linkage completely.
The connecting arm is worn.
I can repair it, but I need a replacement piece.
How much?
Not much for most people.
Too much for us this week.
Then my orders wait again.
I can postpone buying the pump bearing tomorrow.
No, that repair job pays more than my three orders combined.
Who is it?
It is me.
I came to talk, not to fight.
Ayid, I need 10 minutes with you.
I can step outside.
No.
Whatever concerns my marriage concerns my husband.
Love is good, Aayumid, but love will not repair that machine or pay rent.
Then help me because I am family, not because you dislike my husband.
Dele can fund your shop.
He only wants proof you are thinking clearly about your future.
My husband is not a bad decision to correct.
Klay owns two stores now.
He once wanted to marry you and he still respects you.
Then let him respect my marriage too.
If Aayomid wants your help, help her.
Do not make me the price.
I am trying to save her from hardship.
Three customers are already waiting.
How long before your machine works?
Longer than they can wait.
You haven’t worn your mother’s necklace in months.
Today I needed to remember what sacrifice looks like.
Don’t sell that necklace.
My mother left me courage.
Sadday.
She did not leave me only metal.
Use the money for your machine first.
Toby’s contract pays enough to repair mine afterward.
Does Toby know what you’re planning?
No.
It’s your planning.
No.
If he knew, he would refuse before I finished explaining.
Then sell the chain and keep the pendant.
If I keep half the memory, I may lose all the courage.
Last chance.
Ayomid day.
No, today I choose our tomorrow.
I found money for the bearing.
From where?
From something I could live without.
You are hiding something.
I am helping my husband.
Take it before I change my mind.
Boss, this pump model has defeated three workshops already.
Machines don’t defeat people.
People stop listening to them.
Where did you learn to read systems like this?
In places I don’t intend to return to.
That sounds expensive.
The knowledge was expensive.
Living cost more.
The bearing isn’t the real fault.
The shaft is misaligned.
Then replacing the bearing alone would fail again.
Repair what causes the damage, not what makes the loudest noise.
You talk about machines like families.
It runs smoother than before because we fixed the cause, not the symptom.
So, did my investment work?
Tomorrow we get paid, then your sewing machine comes first.
Ayid, it has been a long time.
Klay, I didn’t know you would be here.
You must be Toby.
I have heard about you.
Hopefully from people who like me.
Kunlay just opened his second store.
BC.
Nobody asked for my resume.
Ron says you want your own fashion shop.
I want to build one.
There is a difference.
I can provide the rent, equipment, and first stock.
And what do you want in return?
I want you to stop letting loyalty make every decision for you.
Say exactly what you mean.
Separate your future from a marriage that keeps you struggling.
You are asking me to leave my husband for money.
Do not answer because I am standing here.
I know exactly why I am answering.
Keep the rent, machines and stock.
My marriage is not collateral for your investment.
Are you midday?
If she has chosen her husband, respect the choice.
You don’t understand what she has thrown away.
What exactly are you building for her, Toby?
A life slowly, honestly, and with my own hands.
Honesty does not pay bills by itself.
Neither does pretending expensive things make someone valuable.
I only want you secure.
Then believe security can be built without selling the person beside me.
Come tomorrow for lunch.
No business discussion, just family.
If Toby is treated like family, she thinks defending him makes him successful.
Leave them alone tomorrow.
BC, you could have taken that opportunity.
Not if the receipt required your name crossed out.
You wore it again.
It was clean.
That seemed important.
[laughter] Some men dress like they respect where they are going.
And some conversations improve when they stop comparing men.
Toby, since repairing things is your profession, perhaps you can fix that chair.
He came here as family, not hired help.
There is no shame in fixing a chair.
There is shame in how she asked you.
At least today everyone benefits from your profession.
Work becomes shameful only to people who have never respected workers.
Enough.
Bissi.
He is fixing something you deliberately used to insult him.
I only asked for help.
I only asked for help.
It will hold now.
Good.
At least something around Ayomid is stable.
Mock his clothes again if you must.
Speak about my marriage like that once more and we leave.
Then leave.
That is enough.
This is my house and Ayomid [clears throat] will not be driven from it.
I am saying what everyone thinks.
Ron, I heard voices from the road.
Should I return later?
No, Baba Solah, come.
This is Aayomid’s husband, Tobi Ado.
Ado from which Adibayio family?
Your people would not be the Adibayo family from Ibadan?
I have not called them my people for a long time.
H there are thousands of adibios.
Yes.
But not every man answers that question with pain.
There are things a surname gives you, Baba.
There are also things it costs.
That answer tells me enough.
A mysterious surname still does not buy groceries.
No.
But dignity buys something money never can.
Ayomid, please stay.
I love you, mama, but I will not teach my husband to tolerate disrespect.
Where is your mother’s necklace?
Why are you asking now?
You wore it before bringing me money yesterday.
Toby, did you sell it?
Yes.
That was the last thing your mother gave you.
And you needed the part.
You should never have done that for me.
I did it for us.
Your contract pays enough to repair this machine and keep us moving.
A necklace from your mother cannot be replaced.
My mother left me more than jewelry.
You should not have to lose pieces of her because of me.
First your family, now your mother’s necklace.
How much should loving me cost you?
Do not decide my price for me.
I love you too much to watch you disappear inside my struggles.
Then stop calling our life only your struggle.
If leaving me gives you the life you deserve, I will not imprison you with love.
Then trust me enough to choose.
Tomorrow you sow.
Tonight we stop keeping score of who sacrificed more.
Three cooperative farmers came after you left.
They want you to inspect all their pumps.
All of them.
All of them.
If the first inspections work, they want a maintenance agreement.
Then we price it so small farmers can actually afford it.
Most people would charge more once demand increases.
Most people forget the farmer still has to survive after paying them.
You talk like someone who has run a company before.
Knowing how companies think is not the same as wanting one.
This number called three times while you were gone.
If it matters, they will call again.
You know the number.
You know the number.
I know the life attached to it.
Exactly.
Cara, did you find the job notes?
I need you to bring them to me.
Toby, it is Fei Aladd.
Your father died this morning.
I am sorry he died.
That does not mean I am coming back.
This is not about coming home.
The board the board cannot proceed without you.
Whatever my father left behind, handle it without me.
God, bring your post to Dan.
I cannot.
His final instructions specifically concern you.
Something [music] happened.
My father died this morning.
Is this the family you never talk about?
Yes.
They have money, influence, and a life I chose to leave.
Why are all of you here?
Because yesterday ended badly and this cannot continue.
Nobody came to fight.
We came to settle your future properly.
Her future is standing here.
Ask her what she wants.
Look around you, Aayomid.
How much longer will you call surviving a love story?
As long as you keep confusing comfort with character, we are afraid you will wake one day regretting this life.
Then let that regret be mine to carry.
BC said Ayomid needed help.
She did not say I was being brought into another argument.
Another argument.
You are part of the solution.
Ayid, do you want me involved in this?
No.
But I appreciate you asking me instead of deciding for me.
Then stop using my success as a weapon against her husband.
You could give her a better give her a better life.
A better life begins with being allowed to choose it.
Thank you, Kunlay.
Fine, forget Kunlay.
Look at your life and tell me you would choose this again.
I would choose Toby again.
Even knowing the struggle, I know the man that matters more.
I still fear for you.
You can fear for me without disrespecting the man I love.
Then we have our answer.
You had it long before tonight.
You simply did not respect it.
Will you call Fei back?
Not until I know whether I am answering grief or another family demand.
I came before BC could turn yesterday into another family meeting.
Then come in as my aunt, not my judge.
Toby, I allowed people to disrespect you in my house.
You were afraid for Ayomid.
I understand that.
So now everyone is apologizing because Ayomid refuses common sense.
BC, I told you not to follow me.
Are you expecting someone?
No.
Someone has the wrong address, then they will ask.
Two cars do not usually take the same wrong turn.
Maybe they are visiting someone nearby.
Toby, I did not ask anyone to come here.
Who sends four cars to a mechanic’s house?
Someone who refuses to accept silence.
Good morning.
We are looking for Mr.
Toby Adibio.
Toby.
Mr.
Adio.
We have been looking for you.
I told you I was not coming back.
You refused to come to the family.
So the family and the company came to you.
Company?
Toby.
I am Ukiro Kafo, chief operating officer of Adibio Agro Logistics and I came as your uncle.
Your father chaired a national agricultural [music] logistics and equipment group.
Toby never told me it was that large.
I left because profit mattered more than the farmers paying for it.
Your father called that rebellion.
Then your repair model reached our analyst 6 months ago.
I never sent anything to your com.
I never sent anything to your company.
We studied it ourselves.
Lower costs, fewer breakdowns, better farmer retention.
Your father read every report.
His final directive gives you controlling voting authority in the operating company.
He gave me control.
And you decide whether we launch your affordable small farmer service model nationwide.
My model was never theirs to exploit.
Then lead it so we cannot.
That sounds more like responsibility than inheritance.
Nothing takes effect until you make your decision.
Then nobody celebrates yet.
Mr.
Dio, I did not realize.
Yesterday I was Toby in torn clothes.
Why am I mister today?
Nothing about him changed.
Only what you discovered.
Exactly.
I don’t need you to bow because you learned my surname.
I owe you an apology.
Respect me when you think I have nothing.
That is when respect means something.
I understand.
I apologized before those cars arrived.
I mean it even more now.
Then we can begin again honestly.
Perhaps our businesses could discuss opportunities sometime.
If the opportunity is good, submit it like everyone else.
Will you come back with us?
I will work with you.
But the farmers come first or I walk away.
24 trainees this month.
12 more arrive Monday.
Make sure everyone learns diagnosis before replacement.
You could run this from an office now.
Then I would forget what the machines sound like.
Breakdowns are down 30% in the pilot districts and farmer costs down 18%.
Good.
Then perhaps one successful business owner can congratulate another.
My studio secured its first hotel uniform order and your investment is earning exactly what we agreed.
Then I married a difficult business partner.
You still keep this place almost exactly the same.
Some things should remember us before the money.
You can afford a thousand better ones now.
I can buy another shirt.
I cannot buy another mother.
Still embarrassed by your husband?
I was never embarrassed by you.
