McGill East European and Russian Film/Documentary Series: "Lilya 4-Ever" (2002, Russia/Sweden, film, 109 minutes)

This film is the unremittingly bleak story of the downward spiral of Lilya, a girl in the former Soviet Union, whose mother abandons her to move to the United States. The story is based on the life of Dangoule Rasalaite and examines the issue of trafficking in human beings and sexual slavery.