Sex Slaves (The Real Sex Traffic)

60 minutes / 90 minutes • Documentary • Produced in association with: CBC, Frontline (PBS), Channel 4 • Production year: 2005

Sex Slaves is a gripping documentary exposé inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc. The film takes viewers into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking.

The film focuses on the remarkable story of Viorel, a Ukrainian man on a mission to find his pregnant, trafficked wife in Turkey. Hidden cameras follow Viorel as he tries to find the pimp who “owns” Katia, his wife. After days of desperate efforts, Viorel poses as a trafficker and sets out to buy her back. We follow Viorel to his meeting with Katia’s captor and from there into the world of trafficked women.

Bienstock interviews traffickers, cops and victims as she takes us deeper into the world of modern sex slavery then anyone has before.

Written and directed by: Ric Esther Bienstock
Producers: Ric Esther Bienstock, Simcha Jacobovici and Felix Golubev
Executive Producers: Simcha Jacobovici and Brian Woods