Stella Kitoga

In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.

Ellen Bouché travels to Antwerp to face a terrible truth: Her daughter Sarah lies in the morgue, dead from a fatal drug cocktail of crystal meth and heroin. The stunned mother is assisted by her friend Maggie, whom Ellen knows from her student days in the Belgian port city. A few hours after seeing Sarah's body, Ellen receives an unimaginable text message in the middle of the night: it is an emergency call from her daughter, which arrived two days after the time of death! Ellen refuses to believe the obvious explanation that it is just an unusual delay in transmission. Her maternal instinct immediately kicks in. In fact, something unimaginable seems to be going on, because the student's body has suddenly disappeared and evidence of a connection to a secret voodoo cult is found in her apartment.

At 26, Morgane still lives with her mother. She has not yet completed her studies, and her love life doesn't get beyond one-night stands. She evidently doesn't know how to get things done - in Brussels slang, she'd be called a "klette". Or is she just struggling with the pursuit of the socially-imposed course of life, like so many young adults?

After fighting with her boyfriend on the street, in Brussels' African neighbourhood, Eva escapes into a hair salon. The women in the salon initially support her, seeing a woman in distress. But, when they find out what the fight was about, opinions differ.