Imagine a 17-year-old girl from Dakar who has never lived far from her family. Imagine an ambitious young student who dreams of getting the baccalaureate. Imagine her parents giving her to a family friend to finish her studies in France. Salima is impressed, happy and excited at the same time. She will remain 5 years locked in an apartment in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, without papers, looking after children and running a house, in solitude and subjected to intimidation. Salima Sy lived through modern slavery. She was never paid and never had any rights or freedom but she made plans to escape.