Last June, 58 Chinese immigrants were found suffocated in the back of a lorry at Dover, focusing world attention on Fujian, home to all the victims, and on the Snakeheads, the syndicate who ran a multi-million dollar empire founded on human smuggling. As the British trial of those accused in the Dover case comes to an end, Olenka Frenkiel traces the story back to China, focusing on the family of one of the victims and their fight to try to get back their money from the Snakeheads.