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EDEN - USA Trafficking Film

 

 

Film Segment:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734433/

A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive.

Korean American teenager Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung) is not much different from your typical teen, desiring her freedom and satisfying her rebellious spirit by smoking cigarettes behind her parents’ shop. One night, she sneaks into a bar with a fake ID and catches a ride home with a handsome stranger. But she never makes it home that night. Hyun Jae is abducted and taken to an underground brothel in the middle of the New Mexico desert, where she is given a new name: Eden. Without time even to gasp for air, she’s thrown into the complex industry of human trafficking, in which young women are treated like inventory that is ordered, replaced, maintained, and accounted for at all times.

Based on the stunning real-life experiences of Chong Kim, EDEN is a powerful narrative that reveals one woman’s unyielding strength and the resilience of the human spirit. Director Megan Griffiths presents a harrowing glimpse of the human trafficking that happens within our own borders. In a breakthrough performance, Jamie Chung is able to maneuver strenuous situations while preserving the character’s dignity. EDEN pushes the limits of how much a person will endure in order to survive, and compels the audience to evaluate moral dilemmas that aren’t so cut and dry. –Malou Amparo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734433/