Every single day these past three years, she had religiously dusted the chest of drawers on which the gramophone stood majestically. Yet, never had she noticed that there were four drawers instead of three.

Transcendence is a short story chronicling a surreal moment experienced by Effia, a professor who returns to Ghana to sell the childhood home in Ridge that is her last tie to her family. When she opens the front door of her childhood home, she travels back in time right into her life as a girl in the early 1950s in Accra.