In 2020, Netflix streamed Òlòtūré , a Nigerian film made the year before; it involved a young and somewhat naive journalist who goes undercover as a sex worker to blow the lid off a trafficking ring. But by the end of the film, the reporter finds herself on a bus on the way out of Nigeria. Five years later, the story continues in a new sequel series.
ÒL Ò TŪRÉ: THE JOURNEY : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After a reel showing scenes from the 2019 film Òlòtūré, we pick up right where the film left off: Òlòtūré (Sharon Ooja) on a bus marked “Missionary” with other sex workers. The Gist: Òlòtūré is a journalist at a paper in Lagos, and she’s been undercover as a sex worker, but she’s gotten in over her head. At this point, she’s been knocked senseless and put on that bus, headed to Benin and ultimately to Niger.
It’s part of Tony (Daniel Etim Effiong), a crime boss in Lagos, to expand his empire by trafficking women out to clients in other countries. At the same time, Beauty (Adebukola Oladipupo), another sex worker, has actually managed to escape getting rounded up by Tony’s thugs. She’s given money to take a bus home to her mother by one of the people she worked for.
He orders Alero (Omoni Oboli), who recruited the girls for him, to find replacements for Beauty and her sister, whom his henchmen killed in front of the other women. But she finds out from Sir Phillip (Patrick Doyle) that one of the women in that group i.
