In possession of a rare VHS tape shot by her father during the enclave years of Srebrenica, Alisa goes on a journey to uncover the history of her war-torn family, in search of understanding and healing. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured Srebrenica and did the unthinkable, massacring 8,000 Muslim men. The troops destroyed every trace of Srebrenica’s inhabitants: their diaries, photos and letters. One VHS tape survived the destruction: a 4-hour film describing in emotional detail everyday life in the enclave. It was shot for a single viewer, Alisa, the then nine-year-old daughter of Sejfo, avid amateur filmmaker and resident of Srebrenica, in case he did not survive. Alisa will return to Srebrenica to trace the footsteps of her father. His film is the point of departure in her quest for answers surrounding family and belonging, like so many others whose lives were forever altered by one of modern Europe’s greatest tragedies.

An Italian public prosecutor and a German police officer trying to fight human trafficking. A Nigerian woman who has been trafficked and has become a social worker, rescuing trafficked women in Italy and trying to empower girls in Nigeria so they are not lured to flee only to be trafficked. And a Nigerian mafia operating across Europe. The cast of characters in the investigative crime thriller ‘The Deal’ is bound together across laws and national borders. In an international mapping of the Nigerian underworld in Europe, “The deal” moves from Sicily to Duisburg to Nigeria, where the use of financial pressure and oaths is used to control trafficked girls and their families, who live in constant fear of reprisals. Secret recordings of phone conversations between mafia members and witness statements form the evidence in an exposé of a criminal network few knew existed.