Zula

A young girl living on the margins suffers accusation and brutal punishment in a transient household and ultimately escapes an abusive situation. She forges fragile alliances and faces romantic entanglements and plotted schemes that complicate her attempts at stability, while fortune-telling, an ill-fated elopement, and a companion’s mental collapse add misfortune and moral complexity. Repeated displacements and gradual revelations expose hidden motives and relationships, and the narrative follows her efforts to secure dignity and independence as the tangled events that shaped her hardships are finally explained.