Eight-year-old Pelagy and six-year-old Jocelyne are sisters. Pelagy was trafficked from Benin by lorry, through Nigeria and Cameroon to Gabon. Jocelyne was transported by boat. Both were being taken to work as domestics for the same family in Libreville, Gabon. While the children of the family went to school, the sisters laboured at home, washing, sewing, cooking, and cleaning. They were also forced to work outside the house to make money for their employer.

Pelagy was beaten if she didn't sell her daily quota, and sometimes her employer tied her up. She learned to live with the physical abuse, but when she saw her younger sister being tied up and beaten it was more than she could stand. They fled to the police and are now at the Centre d'Accueil in Libreville awaiting their return journey home.