Masinga The Calling (2024)

• thriller

Logline

An African-born Interpol inspector's operation in southern Africa gets derailed when he encounters an anti-China influencer whose life is at stake.

Plot Summary

African-born, UK-based Interpol inspector Masinga is dispatched to Southern Africa to repatriate a group of Ukrainian teenagers, trafficked by a Russian underworld figure operating in Maputo. While rescuing these teenagers he encounters Xia, a young Asian influencer whose stance against her country’s plundering of Africa’s minerals and wildlife, makes her a prized sacrifice for the nefarious pursuits of the antagonist Jeremiah Mills. One of the central themes is the Asian expansion in Africa at the hands of corrupt government officials who siphon funds. Another is the fictional spiritual journey of the exiled, African detective who returns to Africa to be confronted with his past.