A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.

Tragedy based on events of 1946 in ancient Yoruba City. English colonial officers intervene to prevent ritual suicide of Yoruba chief. Elesin, the chief horseman of the king of a Nigerian village, loses the respect of the villagers when he fails to take steps to follow his dead ruler into the afterlife.