When Aya was 16, she was sold by her mother to a recruitment agency and sent from Cambodia to Malaysia to work as a housekeeper. After two years of exploitation, Aya managed to escape—but returned home pregnant after surviving a rape. Now shunned by the same woman who sold her into slavery, Aya provides devastating testimony about her experiences and the cycles of abuse perpetuated by Cambodia’s widespread system of human trafficking. Director Guillaume Suon also follows two professional “recruiters” who convince the parents of young people to send their children abroad, making false promises about better futures and financial gains. There’s Ming Dy, who sold her own daughter into slavery and now travels to impoverished villages to convince others to do the same, and Pou Houy, a born-again Christian and professional dealer who has guiltlessly recruited and sold more than five hundred Cambodian women. These recruiters are known as “storm makers,” we are told, because “when they arrive in a village, they bring the storm and tears with them.”  EM