14-year-old AYLANA REESE has been repeatedly raped for almost two years by her mother’s half-brother BLUES, whose bar Aylana reluctantly helps out at under her mother’s orders. Blues tries to reduce in his gambling debts by prostituting her to his creditor THE BUSINESSMAN, who also has an affinity for underage girls. But the MOKO JUMBIE, who is Aylana’s African ancestral spiritual protector, helps her to escape and she vows never to let Blues near her again.

 

Struggling to overcome her trauma, Aylana rejoins her late father’s indigenous martial arts Jab-Jab troupe, now run by AMIT DAS, a concerned former student of her father. Amit turns out to be the only other person who can see Aylana’s Moko, but societal conventions and his own caution restrict what help he can fully offer. Aylana is also desperate to keep her needy pre-teen sister LISETTE away from Blues, afraid that he will start preying on her as well once she turns twelve in a couple of weeks. Like their mother GLYNIS, Lisette adores her Uncle Blues and won’t hear anything against him, even from Aylana.

 

But when Glynis’ impending migration requires her to leave the girls in Blues’ guardianship, Aylana has to make some hard decisions. And after a huge fight that drives Lisette into Blues’ clutches, Aylana is forced to again seek the Moko’s help to save her sister.