After her husband was killed, Atoor’s family tried to sell her to a local Baghdad brothel. “I didn’t think it would happen to me,” she said. “My mother used to spoil me. Yes, she sold my sisters but she regretted that. I thought that she loved me.”

She goes by “Hinda,” but that’s not her real name. That’s what she’s called by the many Iraqi sex traffickers and pimps who contact her several times a week from across the country. They think she is one of them, a peddler of sexual slaves. Little do they know that the stocky, auburn-haired woman is an undercover human rights activist who has been quietly mapping out their murky underworld since 2006.

Continue reading at TIME.com.

Did You Know? In 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined. Call+Response is a first of its kind documentary into the world of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Call+Response is coming to theaters in a limited release this October 17-23.

Showtimes & Location:

Ultra Star Mission Valley
Friday, October 17 – Thursday October 23

AM:
11:30

PM:
1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30

Late Show on Friday and Saturday Night:
10:45 PM

For more information, visit www.CallAndResponse.com

As a writer for the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof provides a first-person account of the world of human trafficking.

Read Nicholas Kristof’s articles at NYTimes.com