Harassment, abuse and 18-hour working days, the lives of thousands of domestic workers in the Middle East resemble modern slavery. Maids coming from poor countries in Africa and Asia are locked up for years and with their passports confiscated, they are unable to escape the omnipresent control of their employer.
With unprecedented access the film discloses the agents behind the illegal recruiting of maids, and it uncovers and investigates the maids stories and the lack of justice. It is a world of trafficking as a business, where millions of women are traded to families in the Middle East. Numerous cases of rape, violence, torture and even murder have led countries in Africa and Asia to ban their citizens from working as maids in the Middle East, but in a market of demand and supply, the agents have no intention of stopping the import.
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