24-year-old Bukar Salisu, a Nigerian-Liberian, is caught between two young damsels: Safiya, the crafty daughter of a 'repentant' Boko Haram leader and the curly haired Liberian Nurse-in-Training, Jewel, whom Bukar meets in Monrovia while there to spend his sick leave with his maternal family.

Both will come to find out that Bukar is a rafto - an impotent man, due to an injury he sustained from a .45 Caliber bullet at the war front.

Set in the North East of contemporary Nigeria, Madagali pays a fundamental attention to the pathetic nature of Nigeria's prolonged fight against the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, and it follows a complex dilemma of love.