An estimated 800,000 people are illegally trafficked through international borders every year. In the US alone 17,500 people are trafficked into slavery as prostitutes, farm hands, factory workers and domestic servants annually. The real figure is likely to be far higher as the State Department says under 1% of cases ever find their way to court.

Now Fatal Promises, a controversial new documentary by award-winning film-maker Kat Rohrer and her journalist mother, Anneliese Rohrer travels the globe to offer an in-depth and honest expose into the ‘invisible’, growing crime that is human trafficking.