Together with her partner Daniel Fallshaw, she travelled to Algeria to meet Saharawi people in refugee camps. Their film was intended to centre on a family reunion organised by the UN. But whilst in the camps, Violeta and Dan gradually realised that the people there were practising slavery, with black Africans owned by white Arabs - all quite legal under Saharawi law. Before long they were fleeing through the desert, being contacted by spies, uncovering shocking conspiracies of silence and beginning to wonder if they would ever escape with their tapes - or even their lives.