The author is a well known Ghanaian novelist, theatre writer and screenwriter. Kodzo's dramatic birth in a canoe in the middle of the Volta river, endows him with unique powers and a personal charm for which he is liked by some and violently resented by others. He is generally considered immune to all forms of danger. But he finds himself in jeopardy when he has an affair with the daughter of Tobge, a powerful chief, and also the daughter of Dr. Hoffman, a German scientist.