
Land of Missing Children: The Rape Trade
India loses hundreds of thousands of children to trafficking networks every year, and this film tracks how girls in particular disappear from villages and slums into forced prostitution. It follows the pipeline from recruitment, often by someone the family trusts, through transport to brothels in major cities, drawing on interviews with survivors, investigators, and anti-trafficking workers who describe how the trade operates and why it persists. The film asks why so many cases go unsolved, pointing to police corruption, poverty, and weak enforcement of existing laws as the conditions that let traffickers work with little fear of consequence. Rescue raids and shelter interviews give the numbers faces, showing what happens to girls after they are found and how difficult reintegration into their communities can be. The film treats the trade as a systemic failure rather than a series of isolated crimes, building its case through testimony rather than statistics alone, and closes without pretending the problem is close to solved.