Dublin International Film Festival

DIFF 2025: I Do Not Come to You by Chance

Based on the novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Based on Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's bestseller I Do Not Come to You by Chance, the film tells the story of Kingsley, a first-born son, who struggles to provide for his beloved family when his ailing father's income dwindles.

Possessed of a fine mind but poorly connected in the Nigerian job market, Kingsley takes a job working for his notorious uncle, Cash Daddy, the larger-thanlife mastermind of a thousand email scams. As Kingsley falls reluctantly under his mentor's spell, he discovers his own innate flair for the art of the confidence trick.

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the Betty Trask First Book Award, I Do Not Come to You by Chance was named by The Washington Post as one of the Best Books of 2009 and described as "a lively, good-humored and provocative examination of the truth behind a global inbox of deceit."