A detective on the verge of retirement teams with a professor of African Studies to track down a serial killer who is performing the ancient black magic practice of Muti.

A young girl meets a producer who wants to cast her in a show in Italy. But when she arrives, she is sold into prostitution and then bought by a sadist who makes snuff movies.

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.