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Corban Addison brings visitors on the relaxing, eye-opening trip into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the headache of two orphaned girls taken into the global gender trade. When a tsunami rages through their coastal city in Asia, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sibling Sita are left orphaned and destitute. With just about everyone they understand abruptly removed from the facial skin of our planet, girls put down for the convent where they attend college. They're kidnapped nearly instantly and offered to some Mumbai brothel proprietor, starting a hellish descent in to the bowels of the intercourse trade. Halfway around the globe, Washington, D.C., lawyer Thomas Clarke encounters their own personal and professional disaster-and makes the fateful decision to follow an expert bono sabbatical employed in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinentis individual traffickers. As he sees first-hand the horrors of the trade-in human skin, and the judicial process that encourages it there, his mind awakens.