Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (2021) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Mofe's passport is stolen during a break-in that occurs shortly after the deaths of his sister Precious and her children. This theft effectively ends his dream of migrating to Spain, as he cannot obtain a visa without a passport. The loss represents another devastating blow on top of the tragedy, making his path to emigration nearly impossible.

Foreshadowing: Earlier, Mofe is shown meticulously gathering his documents and visa paperwork, emphasizing how much the passport means to his dream.

• passport stolen
• migration
• Spain
• visa
• emigration

Precious and her two children die from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty generator in their apartment. Mofe discovers them dead when he returns home one evening. The tragedy is sudden and accidental, yet it shatters Mofe's world and derails his plans to migrate to Spain.

• carbon monoxide
• generator
• death
• Precious
• tragedy

Rosa agrees to meet Peter because her boss at the salon offers to introduce her to the wealthy Lebanese businessman who can help with her visa and travel documents to Italy. Despite the personal cost involved, Rosa sees it as a potential route out of poverty for herself and her sister Grace. She is desperate to escape the grinding hardship of Lagos.

• Peter
• visa
• Lebanon
• Italy
• escape
• migration

Grace, Rosa's teenage sister, becomes pregnant by Obinna, who is the landlord's son. This unexpected pregnancy throws their already precarious situation into new jeopardy. When Grace later falls ill and is hospitalized, Rosa faces mounting medical bills, further straining her finances and complicating her dreams of migrating to Italy.

• Grace
• pregnancy
• hospital
• Obinna
• medical bills

Peter withdraws his promised help after Grace becomes hospitalized and the financial situation deteriorates. When Rosa needs him most, Peter abandons her, leaving her to navigate humiliation and debt on her own. This abandonment highlights the transactional nature of his offer and leaves Rosa's migration dreams in ruins.

• Peter
• visa
• betrayal
• Lebanon
• Italy

Neither Mofe nor Rosa achieves their dream of migrating. Mofe's plans are derailed by the tragedy of his sister's death and the theft of his passport. Rosa's hopes collapse when Peter abandons her and she becomes trapped by Grace's medical crisis. The film ends with both characters remaining in Lagos, their dreams of Europe fading against the reality of poverty and circumstance.

• migration
• Europe
• Nigeria
• Lagos
• ending

The film is divided into "Spain" and "Italy" chapters to show two parallel stories of migration dreams. Mofe's story centers on Spain while Rosa's centers on Italy. This structure highlights how countless Nigerians harbor different destinations but share the same desperate hope to escape poverty. The separation also emphasizes that despite their parallel struggles, the characters remain largely disconnected until late in the film.

• structure
• Spain
• Italy
• migration
• parallel stories

Mofe meets Rosa at a bar several weeks after the tragedy that killed his sister and her children. Their connection is tentative and fragile, formed between two people burdened by loss and the relentless grind of daily life in Lagos. They later cross paths again, but both are too weighed down by their circumstances to form a deep bond.

• Mofe
• Rosa
• meeting
• bar
• connection

After Precious and her children die, Mofe faces multiple financial pressures. Hospital officials demand money to release the bodies for burial, while his landlord threatens eviction. Additionally, he must cover funeral costs alone. These bureaucratic and economic hurdles compound his grief, trapping him in a system designed to further break him.

• hospital
• burial
• landlord
• eviction
• money
• funeral

The faulty generator that kills Precious and her children represents the deadly intersection of poverty and inadequate infrastructure in Lagos. Mofe, who works as an electrician and generator repairman, is ironically unable to save his own family from the very equipment he services. This tragedy underscores how the dream of escape is constantly undermined by the immediate dangers of daily survival.

• generator
• poverty
• infrastructure
• death
• irony

Mofe's dream of migrating to Spain collapses completely. After losing his sister and her children to carbon monoxide poisoning, he faces mounting funeral costs, threats of eviction, and the theft of his passport during a break-in. Without the passport and with no financial resources left, his years of saving and planning become worthless, and he remains trapped in Lagos.

• Spain
• dream
• migration
• passport
• loss
• tragedy