While investigating the disappearance of one of her clients, Anna, a lawyer specializing in illegal immigration cases, becomes entangled in a web of Nigerian people-smuggling in the Amsterdam ‘Bijlmer’ district. It turns out that this criminal network not only uses threats of violence to enslave its victims, but also a potent form of African voodoo. As Anna descends into an urban-magical underworld, her Western rationality is challenged - and her life endangered.