
Children for Sale
In the slums of Brazil, hundreds of thousands of children are bought, sold, or trafficked into sex work every year, and this film follows two of them into that system. Juliana left home at age ten after her father abused her and has sold herself since she was twelve. Rosangela was seventeen when a much older Swiss man offered her a cleaning job; he confiscated her passport and ID and kept her as a prisoner. The film sets these accounts against the poverty and unemployment driving families toward complicity, showing parents who encourage rather than prevent their children's exploitation. It also presses into the machinery that lets the trade continue: weak enforcement, corrupt intermediaries, and a justice system that rarely follows through on cases involving poor children. There is no reenactment here, just first-person testimony from girls describing exactly how they were recruited, controlled, and kept silent, and the film leaves the question of accountability open rather than resolved.