Sands of Silence (2016)

Directors

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle

The story

After dedicating more than 15 years to expose the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking in Asia and the Americas, the international journalist Chelo Alvarez-Stehle finds herself in the need to return to the beach in the Basque Country that tarnished her childhood, in order to reveal family secrets. In 1998, while working with survivors of sex trafficking in Asia, Chelo met the Nepalese woman Charimaya ("Anu") Tamang, who had been kidnapped at the foot of the Himalayas and taken as a sex-slave to a Mumbai brothel. Ten years later, she meets Virginia Isaías, a Mexican resident in California that was kidnapped and forced into…

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