Title:

How Love Comes

Genre

: Drama

Release

Date

: 2025

Runtime

: 99 mins

Platform

: Uchenna Mbunabo TV

Starring

: Angel Unigwe, Chisom Agoawuike, Michael Ejoor, Jide J Blaze, Femi Branch and many others.

How Love Comes

is a beautifully crafted romantic drama produced by Uchenna Mbunabo. This film explores the complexities of love, healing, relationships, self discovery and emotional manipulation.

Plot Summary

The story follows Maya, a young journalist who suffers a terrible heartbreak after sacrificing so much for the man she loves, Tunde. She endures heartbreak and betrayal after having undergone multiple abortions for Tunde under the guise of mutual love.

Amidst her pain, Maya finds out a shocking revelation: her late father had arranged for her to marry a stranger in a bid to clear her family's debt. Now torn between honoring her late father's will or staying with her emotionally manipulative boyfriend, Maya must make a life altering decision.

In the midst of all this emotional chaos, Maya finds solace in a podcast called

Muted Thoughts.

The presenter becomes her confidante and source of healing through her guided advice.

The Twist? The voice belongs to her cousin sister,

Zara

, Maya later discovers it and this enriches the movie's overall emotional core.

Characters and Performance

Chisom Agoawuike (Maya):

Chisom delivers a moving performance. She fully embodied a conflicted young woman, torn between love, duty, and self worth.

Angel Unigwe (Zara):

Angel shines as the gentle but wise Zara. a beautiful character that gives emotional advice with maturity beyond her years through her podcast. Angel embodies this role and delivers her line perfectly.

Michael Ejoor (Tunde):

Ejoor plays the character of Tunde, a manipulative and narcissistic boyfriend, who is charming but layered with toxic traits. He perfectly captures the toxic masculinity in Nigerian men masked as love.

Femi Branch

: We are not really used to seeing Femi play a lover boy. He is portrayed as a potential love interest and he delivers his role with ease and charisma.

Themes Explored

Healing and Love

This is portrayed through Maya's character, she fell in love with the wrong person and suffered the consequences. Her journey of self discovery shows that Love does not break you but instead it rebuilds you.

Media as Therapy

The

Muted thoughts

podcast shows how the media can serve as a powerful tool for healing. Through Zara's wisdom, the movie shows how words and stories can impact mental health. The podcast was able to help Maya rethink her self worth, love and when to compromise.

Wisdom Can Come From Unexpected Places

Maya, like many other listeners, thought the voice on the podcast was from an older, more experienced woman. She was very surprised to find out it was her cousin Zara who was behind the mature emotional voice she has been listening to.

The movie suggests that wisdom isn't just tied to age but also younger ones carry wisdom and empathy

Manipulation in Relationships

Let's take Tunde's character as a case study, he was controlling, manipulative and used Maya love as an emotional weapon to continue exploiting her. The movie shows how Love can be camouflaged as control and how humans tend to mask their true behavior and identity through care and love.

Betrothal as a Weapon

In the movie, Maya listens to her late father's will and discovers she's been betrothed to a man to settle a debt and pay off obligations without her knowledge. Maya's betrothal isn't seen as a cultural tradition but as a tool of control. This is used as a tool of bondage by her parents, not a blessing.

Cinematic Quality

How Love Comes

has very good dialogue, without melodrama. The cinematography is great and engaging with a good pacing that draws viewers into the inner world of the characters.

Angel Unigwe and Chisom Agoawuike had a very good chemistry. Their characters didn't seem forced but it flowed naturally.

However, the love triangle between Tunde, Maya and Femi felt like a familiar Nollywood cliche and it was a bit predictable.

How Love Comes

is a beautifully curated movie by Uchenna Mbunabo. It's more than a love story

that gives a deep reflection on love, healing, relationships and exposes emotional manipulation. With strong performances delivered by the actors, especially Chisom and Angel and has thoughtful storytelling.

As the film reminds us:

“Love never tells you how it is going to come. It comes however it likes.”

Rating: 8/10