DYING TO LEAVE
DOCUMENTARY FILM
2004
HILTON CORDELL PRODUCTIONS, AUSTRALIA
Dying to Leave is a documentary film about human smuggling and human
trafficking in a globalized world. This clip is from episode 2 – Slaves on
the free market. The involvement of organised crime networks such as the
Japanese Yakuza and their expansion across international borders and into
the highly profitable trafficking of humans is charted in the story of
Marcela Palacios. Recruited in Colombia to work in Japan as a house maid,
Marcela became enslaved and forced into prostitution to pay off a
fictitious five million yen (AUD $60,000) debt before making a desperate
escape.