A 12-year-old Congolese girl is taken to the mfinda, a primordial forest teeming with spirits, gods and ancestors. There she meets up with another young girl from a different time and together they set out to find the magical Nkisi, vessels that hold ancestral spirits as well as empowering materials or medicines, that will help her find her way home.

An amateur sleuth with a penchant for the paranormal travels to the deep south to solve a string of murders that have awakened a vengeful Boo Hag spirit seeking justice.