An eastern European girl forced into prostitution commits suicide and NYPD Detective Kate Morozov (Mira Sorvino) investigates. She goes to see I.C.E. agent Bill Meehan (Donald Sutherland) and become an agent herself. In Prague, single mom Helena (Isabelle Blais) is lured by a handsome guy to Vienna and kidnapped. In Kiev, Nadia (Laurence Leboeuf) enters a modeling competition run by Sergei Karpovich (Robert Carlyle) which turns out to be a front for a sex trafficking ring. Her father Viktor (Rémy Girard) is tracking her relentlessly. In Manila, 12 year old American tourist Annie Gray is abducted for the sex trade joining other little children.
This is a horrifying movie. It doesn't go easy on anything although it is a TV show with certain limits. The Manila story may be scattering the movie too much. I understand the need to expand and encompass as much of the problem as possible in this movie. It probably would make more dramatic sense to have the girl kidnapped by one of Karpovich's man in America. It would tie everything up much easier. Leboeuf and Blais are amazing as the victims. I don't really buy Sorvino as the hardened cop but she's good enough with Sutherland as her boss. This is a really disturbing movie that goes into some dark places.
This is a horrifying movie. It doesn't go easy on anything although it is a TV show with certain limits. The Manila story may be scattering the movie too much. I understand the need to expand and encompass as much of the problem as possible in this movie. It probably would make more dramatic sense to have the girl kidnapped by one of Karpovich's man in America. It would tie everything up much easier. Leboeuf and Blais are amazing as the victims. I don't really buy Sorvino as the hardened cop but she's good enough with Sutherland as her boss. This is a really disturbing movie that goes into some dark places.