Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. There’s no TV, internet or phone. Not a
single human sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals in the dark forest.

Her grandmother makes herbal medicines for the villagers, but she won’t talk to Simi about their family’s past. Something bad must have happened, but what?

To find out, Simi goes exploring. Caught in the sinking red quicksand of a forbidden lake, her extraordinary journey begins...