Hello, I have had many connections to Thailand in the past 10 years. About 10 years ago, I learned of an Irish woman who went there as a Christian missionary. She exposed the sins of temple prostitution using children as sex slaves, over 100 years ago. A weak Christianity can do nothing to end such crimes against humanity. To combat the sexual abuse, Christians must be built up spiritually, and they must see the unseen battle.

Pla's personality shone through the whole time. Such a loss..............how do all those people who make others suffer so much manage to sleep at night?shame on them

Thank-you for that story. I was moved and again wonder about the capatilistic world of money...because that all that seems to count.

My wife and I just finished watching this documentary, and we are still struggling to control our emotions. My God, we can't stop crying. My wife is from the Philippines, and every year we visit there, and I just wonder how I will look at the girls in the bars there the next time we visit and just stop by for a drink. God, this is so sad.

This is one truly powerful documentary. Through its simplicity and thanks to the fact that Jordan manages to humanize an otherwise nameless nobody, we are left with a truly empty feeling after watching this - how can anyone not cry after hearing (spoiler alert) that that sweet girl will no longer be heard from. I will definitely try and buy this movie it is available. God, I've rarely ever been so affected by a documentary.

Such a shame. Not only the way she was limited to having any other real choice in life, due to her circumstances, but also that she should perish-especially at such a young age. It would be easy to blame the 'falang' that go to Thailand for the woes of the sex trade, but even more despicable is the fact that the govt and police profit from such misery. There are much better reasons to visit such a beautiful and interesting country than for it's ex industry; yet this continues to be what Thailand is best known for.

This was one of the best documentary I have ever seen.

So sad that these young ladies are stuck there with no hope of ever leaving.

Made me realize on how lucky we are to be living in Canada.

Jordan Clark, you are the best!

Disturbing to say the least.
One of the saddest stories I have ever heard.
Not only am I ashamed to be a male but I am overwhelmingly embarrassed buy what I don't, or didn't know about this world.
How can any society, impoverish or not, allow this to happen on such an immense scale.
It begs the question - what can be done to stop this outrage.
What can I, as an individual do to stop this?
What can our "have everything" society do to stop this?
This is just wrong! It must be stopped ...
But how?

Watched this documentary with a very heavy heart. It reveals the domination and the depth of exploitation on many levels: gender, rich vs poor, powerless vs disenfranchised. What is more relevant to us within Canada is the extent to which this same deprivation is manifested in our society. Native Canadians, minority immigrant women, and others who reject being subjugated are then deliberately isolated from some sections of mainstream Canada by being labeled belligerent, or gay, or unable to integrate. There is very little other than living standards perhaps, that differentiates the vulnerable in Canada or the vulnerable in Thailand and we should'nt be too smug

This is the second time I have seen this broadcast - presumably "Jordan" is getting residuals. He watched, he filmed .. and he did nothing. "She didn't ask me for money to help her mother" ... yeah... and he didn't offer any either. Exploitation of young women doesn't always mean just sex. He did well ... let's hope Pla's death will haunt him until his own. He disgusts me.

I was most moved by the Bangkok Girl and how the filmmaker got 'attached' to her. It seemed so surreal and sad at the end. But the truth be known that how society has deteriorated and how men take advantage of this situation. Shame on all men who support and part take in this kind of predatory type of socializing. Shame, shame.

I pray the filmmaker gets counselling support for this traumatic experience.

A beautiful documentary that is poignant and very heartbreaking. It has put so many things into perspective for me and I cannot help but feel for Pla and what she had to go through.

My admiration to Jordan Clark for creating such a powerful film. May the stories of the women and sex workers in Thailand never be forgotten.

Great documentary I've watched 2 tones and cried both times! Really feel for these girls! I find the men sick when they have sex with women who are just doing it to survive.
The man that is a school teacher is a sick gross disturbing man
I want to thank the reporter to open my eyes on this - I now feel like going there and giving the girls money so they don't have to work/ wish they offered school and trade professions etc to these women

what did she die from again? and when? a week after the guy left bangkok?

I was touched by this documentary.What a beautiful girl she was and so easily used and cast aside like a pawn easily replaced. Another reminder how cruel life is for most of the world.

Thanks Jordan and Pla. May god bless her, wherever she may be.

Pla was seemed so happy and cheerful throughout her interviews. I thought Jordan captured it very well when he said the excessive laughing and smiles represented her anger and fear. I would like to know if anyone has insight about her death. She was found dead a week after Jordan left? Was she murdered? Did it have something to do with the documentary? Or was it suicide?

There's nothing western media won't do to comfort our post-industrial despair by making us believe our culture is superior to Thai's ...

These are all country girls, tough as water buffalo, wild as swans, who can't believe how much they can make by providing to polite, benevolent, guilt-ridden, rich, condom-conscious farangs exactly the same service they would otherwise have to provide free without protection to rough drunken whoremongering husbands in their home villages.

Bangkok is one of the world's great cities, and all cities have red-light districts.

The sex industry in Thailand is smaller per capita than in Taiwan, the Philippines or the United States.

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Jon Ungphakorn is a former elected senator for Bangkok and at present Chairman of the Thai NGO Coordinating Committee on Development

There's no way this film maker is innocent, either in his intent to use Bangkok girl for his own interests - or in partial responsibility for her death. He put her in direct line for danger with this film.. He gave her nothing in return for her work. She's the innocent in this case.
I've been to Thailand, as a tourist. Not to see the small shady side in Bangkok - but to view their amazing architecture and culture. In Canada, we have little to compare.
We have a seedy side here too. Just look at Toronto.
For shame to CBC for allowing air time to slander that wonderful country.

I found this documentary both powerful and enlightening. As I watched this documentary, it was easy to understand how Jordan Clark became enamored with this beautiful sweet girl who had such an engaging personality and wonderful sense of humor. I felt so shocked and saddened at the end when I learned that she had died, because she was so full of life. At some point, she said something to the effect.....My name is Pla - don't forget me, Jordan.....It does not seem right that she should ever be forgotten, and I will remember as long as I can.....this film grabbed hold of me and will not let go........