EPISODE
SEASON
Matroesjkas - Season 1
Each year hundreds of women are taken from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution and sexual slavery. This is the story of ten of them. A Belgian criminal gang head east to Lithuania to recruit young women desperate to leave their impoverished lives. Promising a glamorous life as members of a stage dance troupe, the girls are eager to sign up. From the training in Cyprus, to the strip clubs and illegal brothers in Belgium, the girls from the start are forced into a life of rape, abuse, murder and misery. The police are slow and corrupt, and the gangsters are always one step ahead of the law. Only an ambitious journalist from Belgium is prepared to risk all to expose this illegal trade in human bodies. But these girls won't lie down easily. Escape from this nightmare is always on their mind. What follows is a vicious and deadly game of cat and mouse with their very lives at stake.
10 April 1972, Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
October 24, 1964
September 18, 1957 in Balen, Flanders, Belgium
5 May 1972, Lithuania
1953, Duffel, Flanders, Belgium
September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
February 27, 1959 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
September 14, 1960 in Brugge, Flanders, Belgium
August 30, 1939 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
December 11, 1964 in Turnhout, Belgium
March 19, 1956 in Brugge, Flanders, Belgium
5 December 1938, Kortrijk, Belgium
25 October 1964, Berchem, Flanders, Belgium
11 February 1958, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
October 24, 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium

