Dr Wire

Agnes loses her carpentry apprenticeship after a shoddy swinging bench sparks a quarrel with a customer and a sharp reprimand from her boss, who replaces her before the day ends. At home, her younger brother Taju studies with his friend Efe in a dark and hot house, and Agnes drives them outside, words landing harder than she means. A brief turn at hairdressing ends when she is caught sleeping and scolded, so she quits, restless and without a trade. From there, Agnes becomes an electrician’s apprentice under elderly Baba Allen, but a smart television slips from her hands and cracks, the old man collapses, and she and her friend Amaka flee from Mama Allen’s swinging stick. Undeterred, Agnes mends a discarded fan and brings power back to her neighborhood, earning the name Dr. Wire. Word of this feat reaches Frank, a successful man whose fiancée Esther spends her days idle and demanding, while Taju quietly repairs phones to support the family and draws closer to Efe during JAMB preparation. Efe announces she is pregnant, and Agnes confronts Taju with a raw edge in her voice, blaming herself for the mistake that grew under her own roof. Frank, meanwhile, discovers Esther in the arms of David, the same man Agnes had seen weeks earlier and kept silent about. When Frank confronts Agnes, he admits his feelings, and their kiss is sudden, honest, and complicated. Before she can make sense of it, Silas, her neighbor, appears with a bouquet of roses and a proposal; Agnes refuses him because her heart has already chosen Frank. Now Agnes finds acceptance on her own terms. She returns to electrical work with steady hands, and Frank becomes a partner in her life rather than a rescuer. Silas’s rejected roses fade, and the lights of the neighborhood stay on because of her. The final close-up rests on Agnes, her face lit like a neighborhood bulb, the name Dr. Wire settled on her like a workman’s badge.