Adaptação para longa-metragem das experiências de Kathryn Bolkova (Rachel Weisz), uma policial do Nebraska que serviu nas forças de manutenção de paz na Bósnia do pós-guerra, e que expôs a hierarquia militar das Nações Unidas por ter encoberto um escândalo de tráfico sexual.
Adaptação para longa-metragem das experiências de Kathryn Bolkova (Rachel Weisz), uma policial do Nebraska que serviu nas forças de manutenção de paz na Bósnia do pós-guerra, e que expôs a hierarquia militar das Nações Unidas por ter encoberto um escândalo de tráfico sexual.
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.
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.
