The script was written by Joseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. The film is executive produced by Emma Thompson and produced by Jane Charles.
Brown based on Patricia McCormick's novel Sold. An unforgettable account of sexual slavery as it exists now.Sold is a 2014 drama film directed by Jeffrey D. One haunting chapter brings home the truth of “Two Worlds”: the workers love watching The Bold and the Beautiful on TV though in the real world, the world they know, a desperate prostitute may be approached to sell her own child. An unexpected act of kindness is heartbreaking (“I do not know a word / big enough to hold my sadness”). The brutality and cruelty are ever present (“I have been beaten here, / locked away, / violated a hundred times / and a hundred times more”), but not sensationalized. In beautiful clear prose and free verse that remains true to the child’s viewpoint, first-person, present-tense vignettes fill in Lakshmi’s story. She ends up in a brothel far across the border in the slums of Calcutta, locked up, beaten, starved, drugged, raped, “torn and bleeding,” until she submits. What she doesn’t know is that her stepfather has sold her into prostitution.
Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home.
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