Ignoring Nanisca’s orders to stay back, Nawi joins a reconnaissance mission to scout the Oyo forces. The mission goes wrong, and several Agojie, including Nawi and Izogie, are captured by the Oyo and taken to a slave port to be sold to the Portuguese.
Back at the palace, King Ghezo refuses to authorize a rescue mission, believing it is too dangerous. Defying the king's orders to protect her people and her daughter, Nanisca leads a group of loyal Agojie on a covert mission to liberate the captives. A chaotic and bloody battle ensues at the slave port. During the fight, Izogie is tragically killed while trying to help Nawi escape. Heartbroken but determined, Nawi and Nanisca fight side-by-side. Malik, horrified by the brutality of the slave trade, helps the warriors by creating a diversion and freeing more captives. Ignoring Nanisca’s orders to stay back, Nawi joins
The victorious warriors return to the Dahomey capital. King Ghezo, recognizing Nanisca's bravery and leadership despite her defiance, crowns her "The Woman King"—the female co-ruler of Dahomey. Nanisca and Nawi privately acknowledge their mother-daughter bond, and the kingdom celebrates its freedom and the end of its participation in the slave trade. Defying the king's orders to protect her people
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The Agojie successfully burn down the slave port and kill the Oyo leadership, including General Oba Ade, the man who had originally captured and assaulted Nanisca years prior.
Nawi is fiercely independent and questions the strict rules of the Agojie, particularly the vow of celibacy and the ban on having children. During her training, she learns that General Nanisca has a dark past. Years earlier, Nanisca was captured by the Oyo, raped, and held prisoner. She later gave birth to a child but gave the baby away, marking the infant's shoulder with a permanent scar to identify her if they ever crossed paths again. As Nawi and Nanisca grow closer, Nanisca discovers a scar on Nawi's shoulder and realizes that Nawi is her biological daughter.
