Play video. View my profile. Description Publications Comments Backers. My selection. Even when they already know will be engaged in sex work. No one will be there to help when they are violating, abusing or killing you.
You die mentally. You will die spiritually. We want to lend a very loud voice to this fight against luring vulnerable poor women, sometimes UNDERAGED of less than SIXTEEN years, traveling through the hell of the Sahara desert, atimes kidnapped, mostly raped, risk the possibilities of drowning across the open deep mediterranen sea before facing the realities of evil that await them when, and if, they make it to Europe alive.
While in Europe they face the most difficult emotional and mental abuse and forced to make money, at all costs! They are beaten by pimps and abusive clients. Sometimes stabbed severally like the case of the Nigerian girl, Eunice, another vicitim of trafficking that was buried in May, ! Lots of these women went to work in the sex industry. The initial destination was Italy, but soon the trail moved on to cities in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries.
They are by far the largest national group of African sex workers in Europe, although it is impossible to know exactly how many women are involved in this business, considering the fact that they essentially live undocumented lives. They are afraid to speak out and talking to the police is impossible because they do not want to be deported as their madams and sponsors warn them, also for the fact they had taken a scary voodoo oath to be loyal and complete every cent of the up to 65, Euros that they owe in DEBT!
Interviews with stakeholders and victims are intertwined in a powerful reality based tale of a migration stories gone wrong. Heidi is the assistant director of the film as well as the leader of the Brussels production team.
