Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Acting
Anwulika Alphonsus carries the whole film in her eyes.
Direction
Mortezai's documentary background bleeds into every frame.
Director
Sudabeh Mortezai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mortezai cast mostly non-professional actors with lived experience in migration and sex work; Alphonsus was discovered in a refugee center.
The 'juju' oath-binding ritual shown is real—debt contracts enforced through spiritual terror, making legal escape nearly impossible.
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