THE SLAVE is about freedom, and what it means to three different people.
A young loner goes to a prostitute and pays for thirty minutes of her time. As he leaves, she lets him know she's a captive, a prisoner, and begs him to help.
What should he do? Go to the police? How can he go to the police? He would be arrested. He has committed a serious crime: paying for sex with a trafficked woman, a 'controlled' woman.
Besides, the police could not free her. Such women are held in detention centres before being deported - often straight back into the hands of the traffickers.
The man is Neil Chapman and the woman is Liliana Petreanu. The Slave is the story of what Neil eventually does, and what happens to Liliana as a result.
And there's the impossible dilemma faced by Bernard Kassin, a respectable, law-abiding older neighbour to whom Neil turns desperately for help.
The Slave is a story about law and lawlessness in a quiet London suburb where such things really do happen.
THE SLAVE is about freedom, and what it means to three different people.
A young loner goes to a prostitute and pays for thirty minutes of her time. As he leaves, she lets him know she's a captive, a prisoner, and begs him to help.
What should he do? Go to the police? How can he go to the police? He would be arrested. He has committed a serious crime: paying for sex with a trafficked woman, a 'controlled' woman.
Besides, the police could not free her. Such women are held in detention centres before being deported - often straight back into the hands of the traffickers.
The man is Neil Chapman and the woman is Liliana Petreanu. The Slave is the story of what Neil eventually does, and what happens to Liliana as a result.
And there's the impossible dilemma faced by Bernard Kassin, a respectable, law-abiding older neighbour to whom Neil turns desperately for help.
The Slave is a story about law and lawlessness in a quiet London suburb where such things really do happen.