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Short filmTranscript
00:00Mama, I love Amaka and she is the woman I want to marry.
00:12There is nothing you can do to stop me.
00:16Ebuka, it is only over my dead body that I would allow you to marry Amaka.
00:23I am your mother and you must listen to what I say.
00:28Mrs. Uju watched as her son Ebuka walked out on her after a heated argument over his fiancée called Amaka.
00:39This was because ever since Ebuka met Amaka, he suddenly changed and stopped spending much time with his mother at home like he used to.
00:50This made his mother very jealous and also very angry.
00:55And because of this, she did not want Ebuka to marry Amaka.
01:00She was worried and scared that Amaka would take her place and replace her in Ebuka's life.
01:08Mrs. Uju was a widow who had lost her husband many years ago when Ebuka was only five years old.
01:18She struggled and suffered single-handedly for many years to raise Ebuka into the successful man he is.
01:28She watched him grow up and she was the one who made the major decisions in his life.
01:35Ebuka was a mummy's boy who always asked for his mother's approval before doing anything.
01:43They shared an unbreakable bond.
01:47Even when Ebuka turned 26 years old and built his first house, his mother moved in with him and they were both living peacefully and happily.
02:00But when Ebuka turned 29, the bond he shared with his mother started becoming a problem for him.
02:10The problem was that no woman was ever good enough for his mother.
02:15And because of this, Ebuka was a single bachelor who had no close relationship with women.
02:22Any woman he brought home to show his mother, Mrs. Uju always had something bad to say about them.
02:31The very first woman Ebuka brought home was Chisum.
02:37She was a very beautiful, fair and well-behaved lady.
02:43She's too beautiful. She will cheat on you in the future.
02:47I don't like women like her. End your relationship with her.
02:52That was what Ebuka's mother said.
02:55Six months later, Ebuka brought home another woman called Adeze.
03:01She was dark in complexion, beautiful, respectful and humble.
03:07She's too ugly. She cannot bear adorable babies.
03:11I don't want her to be your wife. Please find someone else.
03:16This was the way Mrs. Uju discarded every single woman that Ebuka brought home to see her with the intention of getting married.
03:26However, by the time Ebuka turned 35, all his friends were married with beautiful wives and children.
03:36Whenever he visited any of his friends and see them playing happily with their children and laughing with their wives, he would get sad.
03:47He wondered what it would feel like to have a wife and children of his own and he envied them deep in his heart.
03:58One fateful day, Ebuka was on his way back from work when he saw a car that was involved in an accident.
04:08Beside the car was the driver of the crashed car.
04:12He was badly hurt and was in pain, sitting helplessly on the road.
04:18Every other driver drove past him without stopping to help.
04:23But as Ebuka was driving by, a saloon car suddenly stopped by the roadside and a young beautiful woman called Amaka stepped out of the car.
04:35She ran across the road without looking for incoming cars and went to help the wounded man.
04:44She cleaned his wounds and helped him back into her car.
04:49Ebuka watched in amazement as Amaka helped the injured man into her car and drove away.
04:56He followed her behind to see where she would take the man.
05:01She drove for miles until they arrived at the nearest hospital.
05:06Ebuka watched as some nurses came out to help her take the injured man into the hospital to get treated.
05:15Ebuka instantly fell in love with Amaka because of what he saw.
05:21She was very beautiful, caring and also had a nice personality.
05:27As soon as Amaka stepped out of the hospital, Ebuka left his car and ran to meet her before she entered her car.
05:37Hi, thanks for helping the accident victim. It's rare to find someone as nice as you in the world of today.
05:45Oh, thank you very much, sir.
05:47Amaka smiled. Then she said to him, but who are you?
05:53Oh, sorry. My name is Ebuka. I saw you when you helped the injured man by the roadside and I followed you here. You're a very nice person.
06:03Thank you very much. My name is Amaka.
06:07My parents taught me that it is good to help others because we can be in the same position tomorrow.
06:14The two of them talked for a while and exchanged contacts.
06:19Ebuka invited Amaka out for dinner the next day and she accepted.
06:25In the weeks that followed, they became very close friends.
06:30After work each day, Ebuka would go out with Amaka and they would spend all evening together.
06:37It didn't take long before Ebuka fell deeply in love with Amaka.
06:42He stopped spending time at home with his mother and would always spend time with Amaka after work.
06:49This made his mother suspicious of his movements.
06:53But each time she asked Ebuka why he is rarely at home as early as he used to be.
06:59Ebuka would lie to her that there was a lot of work to be done at the office.
07:05But the truth was that whenever he was not at home, he was with Amaka.
07:12One day, Ebuka was summoned by his boss at work.
07:17His boss liked him a lot because he was very hardworking and honest.
07:23He took Ebuka like his own biological son.
07:27In his boss's office, his boss asked him why he didn't want to get married yet.
07:34You've been working in this organization for over 5 years now and you are earning quite well.
07:40Why don't you want to settle down?
07:42Don't you have any desire to build a family of your own?
07:47Ebuka could not tell his boss that the reason he was not married was his mother.
07:53So he lied to his boss.
07:56I am still searching for the right woman sir.
07:59It is rare to find a decent woman these days.
08:02Very soon, I will retire and need a successor.
08:07You know I don't have an heir and you are the best candidate to fill my shoes and get the promotion.
08:14But if you are not married, you may lose the promotion
08:18because being married is one of the criteria for promotion in our company.
08:23It would show that you are responsible and can be trusted.
08:28After his boss said that, he asked Ebuka to think about it.
08:34When Ebuka got home that day, he couldn't stop thinking about what his boss has said.
08:41If he gets promoted, he would be earning twice his salary and he already had someone he was in love with.
08:50However, Ebuka was scared to introduce Amaka to his mother
08:56because he was worried that his mother would reject her
09:00just as she had rejected the other women he brought to see her in the past.
09:06After thinking deeply for a while,
09:09Ebuka decided to propose to Amaka without his mother's knowledge and also get her pregnant.
09:16If I tell my mother that she is pregnant, I am sure she would not reject her, Ebuka told himself.
09:24One week later, Ebuka proposed to Amaka just as he had planned.
09:30Amaka who also deeply loved him so much, accepted to marry him immediately.
09:36And on that night of his special proposal, they both slept with each other.
09:43Two months later, Amaka found out that she was pregnant.
09:48She was scared at first, but when she told Ebuka about the pregnancy, he was very happy.
09:56Then he told her that he wanted to introduce her to his mother as the woman he wanted to marry.
10:04Amaka was very happy when Ebuka talked about meeting his mother.
10:10Unknown to her, it would be the beginning of her problems.
10:15They fixed a date to meet Mrs. Uju,
10:19and Amaka dressed modestly and prepared herself for any questions that Mrs. Uju might have.
10:26After work that day, Ebuka picked Amaka up and took her to see his mother.
10:33But as soon as Mrs. Uju saw Amaka with him, she suddenly became upset.
10:40My sweet mother, this is Amaka, the woman of my dreams.
10:45She's the woman I have decided to spend the rest of my life with.
10:50Ebuka introduced Amaka to his mother as his fiancée,
10:54and also told her that Amaka was pregnant for him,
10:59hoping that his mother would accept Amaka without blinking twice,
11:04since she was already pregnant for him.
11:08But to his greatest surprise, his mother told him that she doesn't like Amaka.
11:15You can't marry her because I don't like her.
11:18What kind of woman gets pregnant out of wedlock?
11:21I want you to end your relationship with her immediately.
11:25Mama, I got her pregnant on purpose,
11:28because I am tired of you rejecting every single woman I bring to you.
11:32I love Amaka, and she's the woman I want to marry,
11:36and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
11:39Then Ebuka held Amaka by the hand and took her out of the house.
11:45Mrs. Uju continued screaming at Ebuka, but he didn't stop to listen.
11:50He took Amaka with him and drove off.
11:53Together, they went to Amaka's house,
11:56and Ebuka made up his mind not to go to his mother's house
11:59until she accepts Amaka as his wife.
12:04For one week, Ebuka didn't return home,
12:08and this made his mother very angry and scared.
12:12What Ebuka did not know
12:14was that his mother made a deal with the river spirits in the past.
12:19When Mrs. Uju got married, she was unable to bear children.
12:24After many years of trying,
12:27she decided to listen to her friend
12:30and went to beg the river goddess for a child.
12:34The river goddess gave her a child,
12:37but there was a condition that she was given.
12:41The river goddess told her that she would not live to see her grandchildren.
12:46The river goddess told her that she would die
12:50the moment her son's wife gave birth successfully to a child.
12:55This was the reason why Mrs. Uju didn't want her son Ebuka to get married.
13:01She knew that if he gets married and has children, then she would die.
13:06This was the main reason why she rejected all the women
13:10that Ebuka brought to her in the past.
13:13But Ebuka didn't know this.
13:16When she realized that Ebuka had decided not to return home
13:20until she accepted Amaka,
13:23she decided to play along and pretended to be comfortable with the woman Ebuka chose.
13:29She apologized to Ebuka and called him to return home.
13:35She apologized to Amaka and accepted her into the family.
13:40Ebuka and Amaka believed her and felt that she was truly in support of their union.
13:47Unknown to them, she had other plans.
13:51On the day before their wedding,
13:54Mrs. Uju went to the river goddess to explain the situation.
13:59The river goddess gave her a very large mirror
14:02and instructed how to give it to the couple on their wedding day.
14:07With this mirror, you can monitor the activities going on in their home.
14:13But more importantly, through this mirror,
14:17you can terminate all her pregnancies
14:20so she would never give birth as long as this mirror is in their room.
14:25Uju thanked the river goddess and took the mirror home.
14:30She wrapped it perfectly and adorned it with flowers
14:33to make it very beautiful and enticing to be placed in a home.
14:38On the day of their wedding,
14:41she gave the couple the mirror as a gift alongside the other gifts
14:46which other friends and family brought for them.
14:50When they got home, the mirror was the first gift they unwrapped
14:54because it was the gift which had the biggest size out of all the gifts.
14:59When they saw it was a beautiful mirror,
15:02they decided to keep it in the living room.
15:05When they traveled for their honeymoon,
15:08after they returned, Mrs. Uju visited them to congratulate them once again.
15:14But the main reason she came was to check where they kept the mirror.
15:19When she saw that the mirror was placed in the living room,
15:23she advised them to keep it in their bedroom
15:26because it can easily get broken in the living room
15:29if their visitors should come with children.
15:32The couple didn't think much about it and did as she had instructed.
15:38The couple lived happily and peacefully
15:42but the joy and happiness that they shared didn't last long.
15:47In the middle of the night,
15:50Mrs. Uju entered their room through the evil mirror.
15:54The mirror was also a portal through which she can teleport to other places.
16:00When Mrs. Uju entered their room,
16:03they were both asleep.
16:05She stabbed Amaka's stomach with a spiritual dagger
16:08and left quietly without being noticed.
16:13The next morning, Amaka woke up to see blood all over the bed.
16:19She started screaming and was rushed to the hospital.
16:24The doctor told them that Amaka had a miscarriage and the baby was gone.
16:30The couple were very heartbroken and sad.
16:34When they shared the news with Mrs. Uju,
16:37she pretended to be sad and unhappy
16:40but deep down within her,
16:42she was very glad that Amaka lost the pregnancy.
16:47One night, Amaka woke up late in the night to ease herself.
16:54When she looked at the mirror,
16:56she saw a reflection of herself
16:59but what she saw shocked her to the bone.
17:03She saw a different version of herself
17:06like a mad woman with tattered hair and torn clothes.
17:10The mad woman she saw was holding a lot of dead babies in her hands and crying bitterly.
17:18Amaka screamed in fear, waking her husband up.
17:23But when Ebuka looked in the mirror,
17:26it was normal.
17:28He didn't see anything unusual.
17:32He convinced Amaka that it must be a hallucination
17:36due to the shock from her miscarriage
17:39and they continued with their lives.
17:43Some months later,
17:45Amaka got pregnant once again.
17:48With joy in her heart,
17:50she shared the news with her mother-in-law and they both celebrated.
17:54But when the baby was three months gone,
17:57Mrs. Uju entered their room once again in the middle of the night
18:01and killed the child.
18:04Yet again, the couple were heartbroken
18:08but they were yet to realize that the evil mirror in their house
18:12was the tool of the devil.
18:16After her fourth miscarriage,
18:18Mrs. Uju started advising her son to divorce Amaka.
18:23She's a witch
18:25and I am sure she's the one eating all the babies in her womb.
18:29I saw this the first day you brought her.
18:32This is why I asked you not to marry her
18:34but you refused because you were madly in love.
18:37Now you can see the consequences for not listening to your own mother.
18:43Ebuka thought deeply about what his mother said
18:48but he deeply loved Amaka and couldn't bring himself to end their marriage.
18:53Five months later,
18:55Amaka took in with her fifth pregnancy
18:59but the couple decided to keep it to themselves without informing anyone,
19:04not even Mrs. Uju.
19:07They were worried that it would be a shame to go back once again
19:11to tell everyone that Amaka lost the pregnancy
19:16so they decided to keep the good news to themselves until it came to fulfillment.
19:22One day, when the pregnancy was already seven months gone,
19:27Mrs. Uju visited her son unexpectedly
19:31and was shocked to realize that Amaka was pregnant
19:35and was almost at the point of delivery.
19:39Immediately she saw the pregnancy.
19:42She became very angry.
19:44Her facial expressions changed
19:47and her uneasiness became very obvious even though she tried to hide it.
19:53Mama, what's wrong?
19:55I noticed you're not happy.
19:57Did I do anything wrong?
19:59Why did you keep the good news from me?
20:02Why didn't you tell me that you're pregnant again?
20:05Mama, we didn't want to break your heart with the news of your miscarriage again.
20:11That was why we didn't tell you, Mama.
20:14Please don't be offended.
20:17After Mrs. Uju left that day,
20:20Amaka became very suspicious of her mother-in-law.
20:24She found it very difficult to believe that her mother-in-law was angry
20:28because they didn't inform her.
20:31If anything, she should be overjoyed at the sight of her pregnancy.
20:36But she didn't inform her husband.
20:39Instead, she decided to be very prayerful and vigilant.
20:45A week after Mrs. Uju discovered the pregnancy,
20:49Amaka had just fallen asleep when she heard a faint noise in their matrimonial room.
20:55She slept very late that night
20:58because she had just finished her usual night's prayers.
21:04So she wasn't far gone when Mrs. Uju decided to do what she had always been doing.
21:10Amaka opened her eyes and her focus went straight to the mirror.
21:15She couldn't believe her eyes when the mirror turned transparent like a lipid.
21:21She watched as her mother-in-law stepped into their room with a dagger in her hand.
21:27Amaka was about to sit up when Ebuka's phone rang.
21:32Immediately it rang, her mother-in-law ran back into the mirror
21:37and the reflection of the mirror became normal.
21:41After that night, Amaka became scared of living in the house.
21:46She told Ebuka about what she saw, but Ebuka didn't believe her.
21:52Instead, he yelled at her for assuming that his mother was a witch.
21:58Out of anger and fear for her life,
22:02Amaka packed her things and left Ebuka's house to her parents' house.
22:07Ebuka tried to stop her, but she refused to listen to him.
22:13She left without telling him where she was going,
22:16but Ebuka knew she went to her parents' house.
22:20The following night, Mrs. Uju entered their room once again,
22:26but she was angry when she didn't see Amaka in the room.
22:30She searched around the house, but there was no sign of Amaka.
22:35The next morning, she called Ebuka and strangely asked about Amaka.
22:42Her call sounded very suspicious,
22:45because Ebuka didn't tell anyone that Amaka was no longer living with him.
22:51No one knew of their argument, and since they got married,
22:55his mother had never called to check up on his wife.
22:59Ebuka lied that Amaka traveled to a different state to see a gynecologist
23:05so that she wouldn't have another miscarriage.
23:09Why? Her pregnancy is almost due.
23:12Why did you let her embark on such a dangerous journey?
23:15Which hospital is that? Which state?
23:19Ebuka gave his mother a wrong address and ended the call.
23:24Then he started thinking about what Amaka had told him before.
23:29He entered their matrimonial room and started looking at the mirror.
23:35After contemplating for a while,
23:37he took the mirror outside the house and broke it into pieces.
23:42Unknown to him that he had just implicated his mother by breaking the mirror.
23:48When Mrs. Uju went to collect the evil mirror from the river goddess,
23:53the river goddess warned her that nothing must happen to the mirror.
23:58If anything happens to this mirror, you would run mad for a decade.
24:04Make sure you return this mirror the same way I gave it to you,
24:09when you are done using it.
24:12Immediately Ebuka broke the mirror.
24:15His mother became mad instantly.
24:18A few hours later, he got a call that his mother had gone insane.
24:24Ebuka left work and rushed to see his mother at the psychiatric hospital where she was taken to.
24:32The doctors told him that there was nothing they could do to help her.
24:38His mother was busy confessing her sins over and over again.
24:43Ebuka sat with her and listened carefully.
24:47She talked about how she made a deal with the river goddess to have a child of her own
24:52and the warnings the river goddess gave her.
24:55She also talked about the evil mirror and how she was the one responsible for all the miscarriages that Amaka had.
25:03Ebuka couldn't believe his ears.
25:07He was deeply hurt and disappointed.
25:10Just immediately, Ebuka got a call from Amaka.
25:15She sounded very happy and excited and she told Ebuka that she just put to bed.
25:22She gave birth to twins, a bouncing baby boy and a bouncing baby girl.
25:29Ebuka was overjoyed, but immediately he heard the cries of the babies.
25:36His mother started shaking vigorously, formating a white substance out of her mouth.
25:43The doctors rushed in, but it was too late.
25:47She died right in front of Ebuka.
25:50Ebuka instantly understood why his mother didn't want him to get married all this while.
25:57But it was too late for her already.
26:00The couple moved back in together.
26:03They had many more beautiful kids.
26:06Ebuka also got the promotion at the workplace and they all lived happily ever after.
26:13The moral lesson of this story teaches us that no matter how desperate you are for something,
26:19do not be tempted to approach the devil for help.
26:23You would always end up regretting it and losing that which you got.
26:28Be mindful of the gifts you receive on your wedding day.
26:32Not everyone that smiles with you is genuinely happy for you.
26:36Some of them wish you dead.
26:39Always be mindful of your environment and trust the words of your partner.
26:45Do not dismiss their fears as if it is nothing.
26:49What might seem normal to you might be dangerous to them.
26:54Lastly, always be prayerful and spiritually sound.