The Ritual Killer

In the Swahili language, widespread in East and Central Africa, the term "Muti" means "medicine," but it also denotes a macabre form of human sacrifice peculiar to some tribes in which, before the killing, body parts are removed from the still-living victim so that his or her screams of pain can evoke deities. These are ritual killings that are perpetrated and commissioned to obtain, according to dark belief, greater good fortune, strength, power. Charged with carrying out these brutal crimes, an African serial killer operates between the United States and Europe. Hunting him down is Detective Boyd (tormented by the trauma of his daughter's death), with the help of an inspector from Rome and Professor Mackles, an anthropologist of African descent with a mysterious past. Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual known as Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Dr. Mackles, an anthropologist hiding an unspeakable secret.