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Tough to watch, at times impossible to stomach, "Human Trafficking" graphically depicts events almost inconceivable as reality in the 21st Century. 

Every day young girls are bought and sold. They're being lured into an international sex-trafficking ring run by ruthless criminals. The lives of their victims and others who have been abducted will never be the same; while locked away they'll be forced into prostitution, see their families threatened and worse. With criminals making $9.5 billion a year from this industry, the sale of women and girls is becoming as common as the sale of illegal drugs and weapons.

Based on true stories. A powerful look at the growing global problem of modern-day slave labor and sexual exploitation.  

Decidedly not for children, unflinching and unforgiving in its depiction of sexual abuse and cruelty, the series effectively interweaves three separate but horrifying tales. Helena (Isabelle Blais) is a single Prague mother abducted by a man who has been romantically wooing her, forced to become a prostitute by threats to harm her young daughter. Sixteen-year-old Nadia (Laurence Leboeuf) is seduced to run away from her Kiev father with the promise of a modeling career. And, in the Philippines, a 12-year-old girl (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse) is snatched from her parents and taken into the underground, forced to live in filth, surrounded by disease.

They're all victims of a prostitution kingpin, Sergei (Robert Carlyle of "The Full Monty"), a successful New York City modeling mogul secretly masterminding a network of brothels. Hot on the trail are an NYPD detective (Mira Sorvino) and a homeland security agent (Donald Sutherland), working to crack the ring.

The series proves a disturbing, eye-opening instance of fictional TV married to social activism, slyly grafting the didactic message onto a gripping, scary, disgusting and compelling crime drama.