Oswald Ogbonna a deaf-mute and Stephen Okafor a Stutterer get intimately attached to each other over years... even when Stephen became mentally ill and was sent to hospital, Oswald never get detached to the brotherly relationship they shared as friends and roommates. This unpredicted separation made Oswald Ogbonna lonely for the rest of his life. Barth, Nicole, Mande and Dr. Ejike tried making him feel loved but his mindset of inferiority and rejection as a deaf-mute never allowed him pull himself out of the shell.