NEFARIOUS: MERCHANT OF SOULS! - A DOCUMENTARY EXPLORING THE WORLDWIDE SEX-TRADE!

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modern human trafficking, specifically sexual slavery.

Presented from a Christian worldview, Nefarious covers human trafficking in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating interviews with re-enactments.

Victims of trafficking talk about having been the objects of physical abuse and attempted murder.

Several former prostitutes talk about their conversion to Christianity, escape from sexual oppression, and subsequent education or marriage.

The film ends with the assertion that only Jesus can completely heal people from the horrors of sexual slavery.

Filming locations Cambodia

From the first scene, Nefarious gives an in-depth look at the human trafficking industry, showing where slaves are sold (often in developed, affluent countries), where they work, and where they are confined.

With footage shot in over nineteen different countries, Nefarious exposes the nightmare of slavery as experienced by hundreds of thousands daily, through the eyes of both the enslaved and their traffickers.

From the very first scene, Nefarious ushers you into the nightmare of sex trafficking.

When you see a woman being dragged to the 'breaking grounds', you will feel her despair.

You will follow beside her as she is beaten, stripped naked, then sold to the highest bidder.

After she's auctioned off, she's taken to a location where she will be sold night after night.

This sober look into modern-day slavery is designed to explore this horrific issue and uncovers the shocking truth that people are being sold in sex markets in some of the world's most 'developed' countries.

Nefarious brings an array of experts from around the globe, lending their insights in a desperate attempt to find an answer to the crisis of the day. —Anonymous