European governments have funneled billions of euros to North African security forces with one goal: stop migrants before they reach the Mediterranean. An international investigative team, including Bayerischer Rundfunk, Der Spiegel, Lighthouse Reports, the Washington Post, Le Monde and El País, spent months filming in Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia to document what that money actually buys. Reporters embed with militias, secretly film arrests and forced removals, and interview survivors abandoned in the desert without water or shelter. The team is present when dozens of bodies are discovered in remote terrain, evidence of a pattern rather than an isolated tragedy. Interviews with EU officials and internal documents show that European governments have known about these abductions for years while continuing to sign new migration agreements with the same security forces carrying them out. The film moves between hidden-camera footage, survivor testimony, and official denials, building a case that the suffering in the North African desert is not an accident of policy but a foreseeable consequence of it.