In an Igbo village along the Niger River, there was a man who aspired to be respected by his peers and was on the verge of realizing his dreams.
Okonkwo was his name, and when he got to his goals, he made the mistake of killing his son and another person during the ceremony. He had been exiled for seven years and returned to find a massive crisis.
The British have captured his village and are attempting to convert the locals to Catholicism. Including his family.
This movement in their society had begun to divide the people against the colonizer, and Okonkwo decided to join with them. To restore the old system or on how they lived before the British came to their village.
Okonkwo would be unable to remain in this new religious system and wanted to hang himself, breaking the laws of his tribes, and the only persons who volunteered to save him were British soldiers.
They tried to persuade him, but it was all a set-up for them, and they imprisoned Okonkwo and the elders. There was no longer any possibility of changing or restoring their previous way of life.