Sacrifice

Each year, thousands of girls are recruited from Burmese villages to work in Thai brothels. Held for years in debt bondage, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination has displaced thousands of families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. The film examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a crisis born of economic and political repression.