Russian Dolls: Sex Trade
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Details
First Aired: 1/5/2005
Languages: Russian, Dutch, English, Lithuanian
Created by: Mark Punt, Guy Goossens
Type: Scripted
Production
VTMCompanies: Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Independent Productions, Lithuanian Film Studio, Living Films
Countries: Belgium
Where to watch · BE
Seasons
Season 1
Drama series about a group of women from Lithuania and Russia who are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves. The series starts in Lithuania, where the girls are chosen and where they have to sign a contract in Greek, which they cannot understand. The gang, under the lead of Ray Van Mechelen, takes the girls to Cyprus and from there they are taken to Club 69 in Belgium to work.
Season 2
Smugglers Ray Van Mechelen and Eddy Stoefs were released from jail where they were since the end of Matroesjka's, three years before. They discovered then that their partner, Jan Verplancke, disappeared with the money they made to Thailand. They go then to Thailand, but there Verplanke does not give them the money back : instead, he offers them young Thai girls. But things have changed in three years : the market has grown, and new trafficking groups want to have a place in the market. The only things the girls have in common is that "they do that for their families
