Viko (2009)

• 75%
• 2009
• Larysa Kondracki
• Luke Treadaway
• Sergej Trifunović
• Kristina Malota

In the former Yugoslavia of 1997, 17-year-old Viko shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joys are his girlfriend Lila and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother Ivan finally offers him some black-market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.