Finding Elijah

Melissa's tragic documentary provides a glimpse into Manila'snow notorious and booming sex tourism industry through the experiences of a now 28-year-old bar girl named Melissa. force to prostitution and slavery in the bars from the age of twelve, Melissa has managed to escape from the hands of evil step father-from slavery to selling her body a remarkable revelation. The introduction of slavery and prostitution and exploitation, to the side street of Manila has forever changed the city, the economy, the peoples lives and desires. A daring and unabashed look at a popular Western predilection through the eyes of one girl, this film challenges the accepted worldwide practice of sex tourism. The film takes us into that world, meeting girls, brothel owners, and traffickers,sell their women and daughters for material gains. as well as those seeking to combat the trade. It also shows the casual, everyday nature of police corruption. It is the first film to show the relationship of the trade in drugs to the trade in women. children caught in the no-man's land of Southeast Asia's human-flesh trade. It is a trade that includes not only sex, but pedophilia, human slavery and even organ harvesting.