Trade (2007)


Kevin Kline             Ray Sheridan
Cesar Ramos Ceballos    Jorge
Paulina Gaitan          Adriana
Pavel Lychnikoff        Vadim Youchenko
Anthony Crivello        Detective Henderson
Alicja Bachleda         Veronica
Tim Reid                Hank Jefferson
Marco Perez             Manuelo
Linda Emond             Patty Sheridan
Zack Ward               Alex Green
Kate Del Castillo       Laura
Natalia Traven          Lupe
Guillermo Ivan          Alejandro
Jose Sefami             Don Victor
Norma Angelica          Lupe's Neighbor
Kathleen Gati           Irina
Anna Maria Horsford (II) Detective Martinez

Directed by:            Marco Kreuzpaintner
Produced by:            Michael Wimer, Peter Landesman, Robert Leger (II)


Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion 
a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, to save her. Trapped and terrified by an 
underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's 
only friend and protector throughout her ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman tricked into the 
trade by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges immigration officers and incredible obstacles to 
track the girls' abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss to sex trafficking leads 
him to become an ally in the boy's quest. Fighting with courage and hard-tested faith, the characters 
of Trade negotiate their way through the unspeakable terrain of the sex trade "tunnels" between Mexico 
and the United States. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a 
secret Internet sex slave auction and the final climactic confrontation at a stash house in suburban 
New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they give desperate chase to Adriana's kidnappers 
before she is sold and disappears forever into this brutal global underworld, a place from which few 
victims ever return.

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In the slums of Mexico City, the small time teenager thief Jorge gives a bike to his beloved sister 
Adriana on her thirteenth anniversary under the protest of their mother. While riding early in the 
morning, Adriana is kidnapped by members of an international network of sex traffickers. Meanwhile, 
the gorgeous Polish single mother Veronika arrives in Mexico City with a friend lured with the promise 
of a work in USA in a model agency by the same criminal gang. While transported to New Jersey, the two 
girls become friends and Veronika protects Adriana as much as she can. Meanwhile, Jorge desperately 
seeks his sister in the red light zone of Mexico. He witnesses children and the women being loaded as 
cargo in a truck and he tracks them trying to save his sister. When he arrives in Juarez, he sees the 
Texan investigator Ray Sheridan, who is chasing a missing daughter, in the house where his sister was 
lodged. He hides himself in the trunk of Ray's car and once in USA, Ray finds him and is convinced to 
help the boy in his quest.

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When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, 
sets off on a desperate mission to save her. Trapped by an underground network of international thugs 
who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's only friend throughout her ordeal is Veronica, 
a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track 
the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally. From 
the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction 
and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as 
they frantically pursue Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld 
from which few victims ever return.