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This article concerns the 2021 Nigerian Yoruba-language feature film. For related West African adaptations, see Nollywood and West African adaptations of Beach Surgery.
A 2021 Nollywood feature in Yoruba that restages the Beach Surgery narrative as a Lagos-to-Osun journey of two lovers fleeing an unnamed authority. Ife (meaning "life"—an ire-name, blessing-crowned) is a nurse-turned-warrior; her partner, Kofo, an injured engineer with memory loss and a heart kept beating by an improvised external device stitched into his ribs.
The film transforms the urban half into Lagos, reimagining the rooftop parkour as motorbike runs through collapsed colonial arcades and market spirals. The resistance movement becomes a coalition of traditional healers and tech-refuse artists. The radio igloo surfaces as a pirate FM station broadcasting from a rooftop shrine where ancestors listen. Throughout, Yoruba ontology—the presence of Ori (inner head) and Àṣe (vital force), cyclical ethics of time and return—collides with the glitch: the story's seam does not compute across Yoruba and Western temporality simultaneously.
The film's final act refuses resolution, only a decision: to begin again. The lovers ascend a cellular tower as dawn breaks over the Lagos Lagoon, the cycle spinning beneath them.