"Growing up in Ghana, Jacob and Belinda Nti shared the same ambition: to live in America. To them, the United States is part promised land, part land of opprtunity - a country of accomplished women, wealthy men, and reliable electricity. For Jacob, a shy computer programmer who still lives with his father in his childhood home, America remains frustratingly elusive. Repeatedly denied a visa to move to Virginia to live with a Ghanian-borne wife he's never met, he resents that he's been continually passed over. By contrast, Belinda has achieved, as their father put it, “what Napoleon could not do.” She attended boarding school and college in the United States, became a lawyer, and married Wilder, a wealthy Black businessman from Texas. In the eyes of the world, Belinda is a success. She should be happy. Yet the truth is more complicated than that. As their stories unfold, it becomes clear that for Jacob and Belinda, the American dream is an illusion, and that the lives they envisioned for themselves aren't what the hoped they would be."