Say Who Die Ending Explained & Movie Recap: Who Actually Dies?

The function of cinema has been primarily to entertain. Entertainment knows no genre—it is usually a mixed pot of humor, action, thrill, and emotions. Say Who Die, coming from Nollywood is a film set in the Republic of Ghana which can be described as a ride full of the thrill of drug dealings gone wrong, misunderstandings in relationships, and a little bit of sibling drama. Released on 29 August on Prime Video, the film focuses on the relationship between twins Omon and Odion, setting off a series of chaotic events. The film is entertaining, has loopy plot points, and has a heartwarming ending. Let’s take a look at what happens in the film.

Spoilers Ahead

In short, Omon dies. And no, that is not a spoiler. In fact, Omon’s death becomes the cusp around which the larger part of the film unfolds. Omon and Odion are twin sisters born to parents Innocent and Martha. While Odion is the more rookie sister, Omon is the perfect one. She is all set to go to Iceland on a scholarship to pursue further studies. In the beginning of the film, she breaks up with her boyfriend Dade, telling him how relationships fizzle out with distance, and that may lead each other to cheat on them. Dade does not believe in it and wants to remain friends and lovers. He approaches his father asking for a solution; who gives him a sachet of powder to mix in a drink that would supposedly make Omon love him forever. At the house, Omon finds out her father is having an affair with the oil servicing lady, Roalke, and threatens to tell her mother. Upon her father’s insistence that he actually loves their mother, Omon holds her tongue. However, it looks like Martha already knows what is going on.Odion, on the other hand, is being chased by Jaja for not returning some money (1.3 million) that she borrowed. At the farewell party, Martha poisons a bottle of wine to give to Roalke, but Omon drinks it first. In the same bottle, Dade had mixed his father’s sachet. Martha tries acting immediately, but by that time Jaja had crashed the party and held Omon by a knife; Omon collapses on the ground and dies. Everyone is blaming themselves; meanwhile, Odion is kidnapped by Abdul—from whom Omon had taken cocaine pills, which she was possibly taking abroad. Abdul mistook Odion for Omon and now wants the cocaine back. Odion escapes and goes to the funeral home to fetch the pill out of Omon’s body. She visits Jaja at the prison, and the two decide on a drug deal of fifty million. However, Abdul’s gang is also looking for Odion; Jaja calls up Kenny P and sets up a deal.

On the day of the funeral, Odion takes the money and deals the drug. She is planning to escape the country under her sister’s passport; she had also overheard her mother say that she would have preferred if it was Odion who died and not Omon. Omon had always felt insufficient, and she wanted a way out. In the meantime, Abdul’s gang turns up at the funeral and cuts up the body looking for pills. Martha attacks Roalke for cheating with her husband, and mayhem unfolds. However, things soon take a turn for the better. Odion and her mother have a heartfelt conversation where her mother tells her that she is enough, and leaving the country under a guise may prove to be risky for her. She also spots the money, which Odion explains to be something she had gathered for her sister by begging and borrowing, in turn having a chance at being the good daughter. Abdul is approached to become a face for anti-drug abuse (yes, ironic and sudden), and Odion turns up at his door to leave the money. When Abdul asks her to stay away, she picks up the bag and walks to her freedom.

Omon’s drug dealing comes as a surprise to the plot. She has been the model child, going abroad to pursue her education; it leaves me with the question, did she not win a scholarship at all? Or did she get the chance at the university but did not have funds to sustain herself? The economic shift from Ghana to Iceland can be a big one. Omon, just like Odion, found a way—which feels like the common way out for many teens and youth in Ghana, due to lack of opportunities—to turn to a drug deal. It was perhaps her first and was going to be the last one she had dealt with. Like Odion later, Omon too wanted to escape the chaotic situation where her father was cheating on her mother, where a relationship became stifling, and where she simply wanted a better life for herself. While everyone blamed themselves for her death, they were possibly the ones to blame. Their intervention—although unintentional—made Omon’s autonomy and agency compromised. It is said, a cage of gentle hands is still a cage. 

As often between twins, comparisons are drawn. Twins are similar in many things—in appearance, demeanor, and even patterns in their behavior. However, one has to remember that they are inherently two different people. Omon and Odion were different—while Omon was the one who was leaner, did well with her studies, and was more favored in general by the parents, Odion had quite a second spot compared to her. Yet she dearly loved her sister; she bought her a dress even when she did not have money just because she loves her; it is the same dress that she wears to her sister’s funeral. Odion may have been in the wrong business—borrowing money, getting in trouble, and even partly being blamed (unjustly) for his sister’s death—but the love she had for her sister was not false. On the other hand, Omon, who is the perfect student and perfect daughter, hid a secret life under perfection. It is no wonder that Odion felt betrayed after feeling invisible for so many years.After knowing that her sister is dead and she cannot do much about it, Odion decided to use it to her favor and escape the place where she did not even feel loved and appreciated. I mean, her mother clearly said (when she thought nobody was listening) that she would rather have Odion die than Omon. No wonder she felt unwanted. However, I may have to excuse that under the context that she was speaking from grief since, at the last part of the film, she does have some kind of reconciliation with Odion. In any case, the story works in Odion’s favor. She takes the hassle of shoving her hand off her dead sister’s buttocks to find the cocaine pills and takes a leap of faith by doing a drug deal, and even when she wants to return the money to Abdul, Abdul does not need it anymore. This forges a path of freedom for Odion, and presumably she would be able to use the drug money to turn her life around. Beneath its wild plot twists, Say Who Die is a good mix of the chaos of drugs, betrayal, and crime and a bit of family drama. Underneath its too-much-happening plot also lies a tender core where two sisters trapped in different cages each long for escape and freedom in their own ways.