
The Hollow godsend paints a scenario of a family setting bedeviled by material poverty, made worse by poverty of emotion. The head of the family, Apero, mindless of his family life burden, is overdriven by a desire for more sons to equal his seven female children. His wife,Abama,carrying her tenth pregnancy, awakens before the sunrise,weak and ill...
This pregnancy, unlike the ones before it, demands more than what Apero and Abama are capable of giving. She is rushed to the hospital at the point of giving her life to save one. Her husband walks
away as if in a trance, not knowing where to get blood or money required for its purchase, for his wife being surgically operated on. In his disillusionment, he is approached by a godsend...
And the story of Apero and his godsend starts and ends in dramatic details.