Stolen

Basic Info

Genre: Drama

Filming: November/ December 2010

Production Co: RSJ Films

Broadcaster: BBC One (UK)

Cast: Damian Lewis (Detective Inspector Anthony Carter)

Crew: Justin Chadwick (Director), Stephen Butchard (Screenwriter),

Synopsis

Stolen follows the story of one man, Anthony (Lewis), and three children.

Anthony works in the Human Trafficking Unit, battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children being smuggled into the UK and from there, to anywhere and to any fate.

Anthony has a wall of snapshots in his office of unknown children, children without passports, without identity, without family, without hope, who have been smuggled into this country to be enslaved and exploited: Rosemary 11, is a terrorised young girl from West Africa, who thought she was coming to England to be educated. She is sold as a house servant; Kim Pak, 15, is a gardener in a Vietnamese cannabis house, imprisoned in a semi in suburbia; Georgie, 14, from the Ukraine, is put to work in the food industry, making sandwiches.

If Anthony could save just one of those faces on his wall, it would be worth it.