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미국 네브래스카 주의 경찰인 캐스린 볼코박은 돈이 필요하다는 지극히 개인적인 이유로, 정부에서 파견하는 평화유지군 임무에 지원하게 된다. 캐서린은 보스니아에 파견된 후 얼마 지나지 않아, 숲에서 상처투성이로 발견된 한 여자아이를 조사하게 되고, 그 아이가 보스니아 인신매매의 피해자라는 것을 알게 된다. 하지만 사건의 진실을 파헤치는 과정에서, 인신매매에 가담한 사람이 포주 한 명에 불과한 게 아니라는 것을 알게 되는데…
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미국 네브래스카 주의 경찰인 캐스린 볼코박은 돈이 필요하다는 지극히 개인적인 이유로, 정부에서 파견하는 평화유지군 임무에 지원하게 된다. 캐서린은 보스니아에 파견된 후 얼마 지나지 않아, 숲에서 상처투성이로 발견된 한 여자아이를 조사하게 되고, 그 아이가 보스니아 인신매매의 피해자라는 것을 알게 된다. 하지만 사건의 진실을 파헤치는 과정에서, 인신매매에 가담한 사람이 포주 한 명에 불과한 게 아니라는 것을 알게 되는데…
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Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.
Director
Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.
