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The Route

  • The Route
Genre : Thriller
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2013
Format : Feature
Running time : 67 (in minutes)

  The Route is a feature film about a teenage girl whose dad dies and she is left with her mother who can't afford to pay for her high school so she decides to move to Kampala city to look for a job. And the city she is sold off by one of her friends to a brothel owner who later sells her to another brothel owner in Bangkok where she is shipped in a container and there she gets pregnant and is told to abort but she can not do that so she ends up taking her own life.  

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