The trailer for a dramatic full-length feature film about human trafficking was released coinciding with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
A local Mont Belvieu girl, Annalise Bergen, plays the daughter of a man who appears to be the guy next door but harbors a terrible secret.
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