American journalist Alison Wheeler seeks to uncover the circumstances of her brother's death, an NGO who was part of the Human Rights Watch unit that conducted interviews in Plateau state Nigeria, and was a witness to the massacre in Jos on November 29, 2008. When she discovers her brother's involvement in gaining asylum for Jummai, a young Muslim mother, she unearths another mystery about her brother's murderer, and puts herself at the center of a political retribution.