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In a big old house in Nigeria, a large extended family plus an assortment of neighbors and passersby make up the environment of the "family house." Watching over it all, punishing, rewarding, judging everything that goes on, Grandpa presides. Somehow, as conmen,market women,psychics and thieves meander through the life of the family and the house, Grandpa manages to turn every circumstance to his own material advantage while providing a place of secure, if not exactly comfortable, refuge for any
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