Last year I did a general post on the problem of human trafficking in Moldova. Imagine my surprise when I happened upon a documentary on this topic - with a plot centering around a woman from Tiraspol, no less - while channel surfing over the weekend. Much of the dialogue is in Russian with subtitles, so if you're looking to improve your knowledge of the lexical registers people use when they are feeling extremely angry or admitting to being criminally shady, the five-part series on YouTube may be just what you're looking for.
More seriously, in spite of the efforts of NGOs like the one that apparently sponsored this film, trafficking obviously remains both a disease on a societal level and the source of thousands of broken lives on an individual level.
The New Yorker profiled one Moldovan "countertrafficker" earlier this year in an article worth reading; you can listen to additional commentary from the author here. See also this related slide show, if you can get it to work.
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