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Trailer Watch: Three Young Women Are Forced into the Sex Trade in “Trafficked”

“Trafficked”

“You both owe me 500 men,” Mali (Jessica Obilom) and Amba (Alpa Banker) are told in the new trailer for “Trafficked.” The two young women — from Nigeria and India, respectively — have been sold into a Texas brothel and are being instructed on how they will live from now on. “When you’re with [a man], you smile. Enjoy it,” their pimp Simon (Sean Patrick Flanery) demands. “If you don’t enjoy it, lie — make them think you enjoy it.”

We don’t know exactly how Mali and Amba ended up in the brothel but it’s revealed that another young woman, Sara (Kelly Washington), was kidnapped after she turned 18 and was forced to leave foster care. But Mali suggests that they all try and forget about their old lives and how they ended up in the brothel. “Don’t think about who you used to be,” she says. “You have to keep that other girl buried far away because in here she’ll drive you mad.”

The young women try to heed Mali’s advice but it’s not long before they realize a train line runs about a mile away from the brothel and decide to risk their lives and attempt escape.

Directed by Will Wallace (“Red Wing”), “Trafficked” is inspired by Professor Siddharth Kara’s non-fiction book “Sex Trafficking.” Kara also penned the screenplay. The film opens in New York this Friday, October 6, and in Los Angeles October 13.


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