Maelea is just an average eleven-year-old girl living in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Her days consist of fishing in the Mekong River with her father, looking after her younger sister Srey, and cooking with her mother in their modest family hut.
However, her routine life is suddenly disrupted when her younger sister becomes dangerously ill with dengue fever. Her father journeys to the city in search of help, and returns with a doctor - and a mysterious woman whom Maelea is told she will now work for, as a domestic servant.
Maelea is promised a door to a better future, but soon finds herself trapped in a brothel. There, she endures unimaginable torture, isolation, and is forced to sell her body up to sixty times a night for two years - until one horrific act of terror becomes an unlikely saving grace.
"Dance For Me" is an honest and compassionate look into child sex trafficking. it will make you angry; it will make you sad. But more than anything, it will inspire you to act for those who cannot.
DISCLAIMER: This story contains passages of child abuse that some readers may find disturbing.
However, her routine life is suddenly disrupted when her younger sister becomes dangerously ill with dengue fever. Her father journeys to the city in search of help, and returns with a doctor - and a mysterious woman whom Maelea is told she will now work for, as a domestic servant.
Maelea is promised a door to a better future, but soon finds herself trapped in a brothel. There, she endures unimaginable torture, isolation, and is forced to sell her body up to sixty times a night for two years - until one horrific act of terror becomes an unlikely saving grace.
"Dance For Me" is an honest and compassionate look into child sex trafficking. it will make you angry; it will make you sad. But more than anything, it will inspire you to act for those who cannot.
DISCLAIMER: This story contains passages of child abuse that some readers may find disturbing.
