EPISODE
SEASON
Matroesjkas - Season 1
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.
October 24, 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium
5 May 1972, Lithuania
8 December 1980, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
13 March 1965, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
21 September 1965, Gent, Flanders, Belgium
April 23, 1975 in Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
December 11, 1964 in Turnhout, Belgium
February 5, 1969 in Bavikhove, Flanders, Belgium
October 22, 1952
March 19, 1956 in Brugge, Flanders, Belgium
20 June 1972, Herentals, Flanders, Belgium
September 18, 1957 in Balen, Flanders, Belgium
7 February 1959, Baudour, Belgium
5 December 1938, Kortrijk, Belgium
September 26, 1928 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium

