
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.














27 July 1944, Bulgaria

August 6, 1941 in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

October 24, 1964



October 27, 1944

June 15, 1950 in Vilnius, Litovskaya SSR, USSR


13 July 1949, Zasliai, Litovskaya SSR, USSR

February 27, 1959 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]

August 19, 1965 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium

11 February 1958, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

1962

21 September 1965, Gent, Flanders, Belgium

April 23, 1975 in Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands

August 7, 1951 in Belgium

July 14, 1971 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Vilnius, Lithuania]



December 11, 1964 in Turnhout, Belgium

January, 1958 in Belgium


October 22, 1952

1957, Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

1953, Duffel, Flanders, Belgium

17 June 1957, Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands



10 April 1972, Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

September 3, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]