A movie on human sex trafficking opens this weekend. Please go! It's opening in a limited number of cities. You can find out at their website whether or not you're close by. Unfortunately, we are not. Here's the synopsis:
When 13-year-old Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), sets off on a desperate mission to save her.
Trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's only friend throughout her ordeal is Veronica (Alicja Bachleda), a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray (Kevin Kline), a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally.
From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they frantically pursue Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld from which few victims ever return.
Inspired by Peter Landesman's chilling NY Times Magazine story on the
U.S. sex trade, "The Girls Next Door," TRADE is a thrilling story of
courage and a devastating expose of one of the world's most heinous
crimes.
The American debut of Marco Kreuzpaintner, one of Germany's leading
young directors, TRADE is produced by Roland Emmerich and Rosilyn
Heller from a screenplay by Academy Award(R) nominee Jose Rivera (THE
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES).
Thanks to Danica for making me aware of this.
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