A Vow To Keep

Ivie prepares for her honeymoon alongside her new husband Ila Osal and her aunt Mama Ireti gifts her fertility herbs with assurances they will hasten motherhood. Ivie's brother and his wife Reti host Mama Ireti who immediately critiques their home and cooking. In another household a heavily pregnant Ivie shares tender moments with her husband Kamcy as they discuss their future and miss their friend Angel. When Ivie's cousin Ireti discovers she is pregnant the family demands the father's identity. Under pressure Mama Ireti confesses she laced coffee and food with aphrodisiacs and sprayed scents to make Ireti and Kamcy receptive because she believed a prophecy destined Kamcy for Ireti. The revelation shatters the family because Ivie is grieving a recent miscarriage and learns her husband betrayed her with her own sister. A violent confrontation erupts and ends with Ivie ordering Ireti out of the house. In A Vow To Keep the elders convene and decree that Kamcy must marry Ireti to legitimize the child. Kamcy spirals into guilt and despair and then Ivie and Kamcy separate. Kamcy sinks into a deep depression and ignores Ivie's attempts at contact. Ireti moves into a new apartment and receives Ivie's surprising forgiveness but firm boundary. Kamcy begins therapy and sends heartfelt voice messages that accept full responsibility and acknowledge the drugging but own his actions. Ivie wrestles with whether to terminate her own subsequent pregnancy and then decides against it. The tension peaks as the family's fractured relationships hang in a fragile balance. Six months later Kamcy and Ivie attend a final therapy session where the therapist commends their hard work. They renew their vows in a romantic setting and Kamcy proposes again with a ring and a promise to spend his life proving worthy of a second chance. Ireti arrives and embraces Ivie in a moment of tentative reconciliation between them.