Criminal Conversations: The Bed Defiled The central point of this labyrinth’s journey is the levirate Yoruba custom, which constrained a young widow to marry Rotimi, her brother-in-law, in pre-independent South-West, Nigeria. This passion-natured Ediliola, the daughter of a reputable Anglican parson, didn’t expect the moral, societal, and legal roadblocks she must navigate in her quests for true self and true love or whether she will get there.