Eden (2012 film)


Eden Abduction of Eden is a 2012 American dramatic film about human trafficking. It was directed by Megan Griffiths, who cowrote the screenplay with Richard B. Phillips and stars Jamie Chung, Matt OLeary and Beau Bridges. The film was produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler through Planks Centripetal Films production company. It was inspired by the story of Chong Kim, who claims that she was kidnapped and sold into a domestic human trafficking ring in the mid 1990s. It had its world premiere at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival.

HyunJae is a KoreanAmerican teenager girl living in New Mexico in 1994 with her immigrant parents. HyunJae works at her fathers taxidermy shop, but is bored. After convincing her reluctant mother to let her go out on a Friday night, she joins her friend Abby at a local bar with fake IDs. Jae meets a goodlooking young man in a fireman uniform, and accepts his offer to drive her home. In the car, HyunJae notices that there is a policeman uniform costume in the backseat and the firefighter badge is fake. HyunJae attempts to escape from the car, but is caught. She is bound, gagged, and thrown into the trunk of a second car driven by a second man.HyunJae is taken to an isolated warehouse in the middle of the desert, where she is put in a hospital room and has her braces and other belongings forcibly removed. Confused and terrified, HyunJae meets the leader of the operation, a corrupt federal marshal Bob Gault, and his overseer, Vaughan, a shorttempered and drugaddicted striver. After confirming her suspicions that she is now part of a sextrafficking ring, Gault christens her with her new name, Eden, named after the place where she and her family used to live, and tells her that any acts of trouble could end with the harm of her family. Gault tells her that she has a few days to accept this reality and after that, she will start working for him. ........

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