Trafficking in human beings represents the world's third most profitable illegal business after drug and arms trafficking. Human traffickers view their business as any other business with one difference -- people are treated as commodities. Victims face abuse and exploitation and are forced by using inhumane ways and means to make profit for the human traffickers. Those are adopting more and more sophisticated methods as well as more and more deceitful means of attracting new victims. Anyone of us can fall into the trap of human trafficking. The estimates say that every year about 250 thousand people become victims of human trafficking only in Europe. The film presents this alarming issue to the society through real-life stories. The victims -- a man forced to beg in Italy, a woman forced to work without pay in England, a man exploited at a construction site in England and a woman trafficked to Switzerland for prostitution - speak about their ordeal. Further stories on how easy it is to get caught up in human trafficking could be told by others who took the bait of a fake employment agency created solely for the screening purposes. The film was financially supported by the Crime Prevention Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Slovak Republic.

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