GHOSTS, it appears, aren't spooky apparitions floating around old buildings at night.
It is the slang name for white Europeans.
It is also the title of a film which dramatises the story of several Chinese cocklepickers who died at Morecambe Bay in 2004.
I was at a special showing, arranged by Kensington Regeneration, at FACT last night.
If you have the chance to see this film then grab it with both hands because it is excellent - it is quietly effective, its message coming across quite clearly without the need to plunge into histrionics or overblown emotion.
No one comes out of it looking too good, from the people smugglers from China to Britain, the employment and welfare people in the UK and the parasitical landlords packing 15 illegal immigrants into grotty terraced homes to the cocklepicking gangmasters and even some of the Chinese themselves.
Of course, the most obvious 'bad guys' in the film were the rival cocklepickers who used venom and violence to drive the Chinese off the most lucrative areas of the bay and to quiet - and as we saw, deadly - times of day.
Venom, violence, and - disappointingly - Scouse accents.
Apparently, according to one of the panel at a Q&A session after the film, the story of the cocklepickers is a very well known one in China itself.
Alas, it would be too much to hope that it would put off more immigrants from falling into a similar trap.
Maybe, as someone suggested, the Chinese government should be encouraged to allow Ghosts to be shown across the People's Republic.
