EPISODE
SEASON
Matroesjkas - Season 2
Each year hundreds of women are taken from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution and sexual slavery. This is the story of ten of them. A Belgian criminal gang head east to Lithuania to recruit young women desperate to leave their impoverished lives. Promising a glamorous life as members of a stage dance troupe, the girls are eager to sign up. From the training in Cyprus, to the strip clubs and illegal brothers in Belgium, the girls from the start are forced into a life of rape, abuse, murder and misery. The police are slow and corrupt, and the gangsters are always one step ahead of the law. Only an ambitious journalist from Belgium is prepared to risk all to expose this illegal trade in human bodies. But these girls won't lie down easily. Escape from this nightmare is always on their mind. What follows is a vicious and deadly game of cat and mouse with their very lives at stake.
5 May 1972, Lithuania
December 11, 1964 in Turnhout, Belgium
20 October 1974, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
13 November 1974, Karaman, Turkey
April 23, 1975 in Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
October 24, 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium
August 30, 1939 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
8 December 1980, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
October 27, 1944
14 February 1946, Niel, Flanders, Belgium
March 19, 1956 in Brugge, Flanders, Belgium
January, 1958 in Belgium
July 14, 1971 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
13 June 1971, Wilrijk, Flanders, Belgium
February 27, 1959 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
June 15, 1950 in Vilnius, Litovskaya SSR, USSR