The United Nations has declared Nigeria among the eight countries with the highest rates of human trafficking in the world. Elena Perlino's work attempts to show the complexities and contradictions of women's experience, recording their daily life in Turin, Genoa, Rome, Naples and Palermo, and collecting the stories of women from Benin City in Edo State, where around eighty per cent of trafficked women come from.

“It documents more than the particularities of prostitution, trafficking and the cultural specificities of the Italian cities these women live in: it documents the very things we consciously choose to elude, ignore and dismiss. Its view of the fleeting and unnoticed lives of trafficked sex workers reveals just how little we understand, or are willing to confront, about the horrid aspects of the everyday and the conditions of those we always think of as less, and always in our service.”