Holly (2006) Movie Script
Almost home.
Hmm?
Hmm?
Hmm?
He's bluffing.
Freddie fucking Getz.
Holy shit.
It's Asia's favorite white man.
What the hell are you
doing in this place?
Just trying to save
another lost soul, brother.
Shitter's in the back.
Go check the mirror,
and you might find one.
Unh-unh.
Unh-unh.
All right, go ahead.
Tick-tick shit.
You still doing laundry?
No, I, uh...
gave myself a promotion.
I'm sending out.
Oh.
How's Bangkok these days?
Bangkok's Bangkok.
Yeah?
What, do you got
a sweetheart down here?
No, just business.
We've expanded.
Good for you.
So have I.
You got that beat?
Wait, three -- wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait!
Three fucking aces? You can't
have three fucking aces.
I've got two aces
right there!
That's five aces! How the fuck
do you get five aces?!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Come on, let's go.
- All right.
I don't know how you get
five fucking aces in a deck!
We're going. We're going.
All right, all right.
It's good. It's good.
Just go.
- Fine, fine.
Let's go.
Keep the money.
If you're gonna cheat,
fucking learn to cheat.
Fucking asshole.
American, fuck you!
I need a drink.
You got any money left?
Yeah, you think I'm gonna lose
to those clowns?
You left all your money
in the pot.
I walked in
with about a third of this.
White guy
looks like he goes bust,
I get home safe,
everybody's happy.
Smooth operation,
Freddie.
Maybe you should quit
while you're ahead, Patrick.
Fuck off.
How much money you got
in your pocket, huh?
Enough for, what,
three meals,
roof over your head?
I'm doing all right.
You're doing all right.
I'm talking about nice money,
you know.
You could
start something with it.
What am I gonna start?
Well, I don't know.
Something.
It's easy.
It's simple money.
I don't know.
I'm not doing that
anymore, okay?
I'm a card player.
You're a card player.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure you are.
Is this Vegas?
- I'm sorry.
I didn't see the big casinos
and the lights.
Cut the fucking crap,
Patrick.
Hello?
Barkeep!
Yes, sir?
I want to pay his bill.
That's my number, buddy.
Use it
if you grow a brain.
Yeah, good to see you.
Shh.
Turn over.
Turn over.
I like you.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello. I love you.
I have new girl.
Huh?
She upstairs.
Really new. She virgin.
How much?
One week, $1,000.
Too much.
No too much. She very beauty.
Very beautiful.
No, too much.
I discount you!
$900!
Bye!
Bye-bye!
So, what do you think?
Well...
Very inconspicuous.
So am I.
Are you sure you want to go
on that thing?
I trust that thing
more than I trust you.
It's a big mistake.
Hey. Be back
in three or four days.
You got it.
Gas?
For gas.
Gas -- straight back.
Straight back.
Straight back. Oh, okay.
Thank you.
And another four.
Yeah, four of you.
This is ridiculous.
Hey.
Pedro.
Need some gas.
No gas. Gas later.
What do you mean?
When's later?
Come on.
Hey. You buy me beer?
Me, too.
No.
I thirsty.
Thirsty for love.
Uh...
Okay.
Go back to your table.
Me no go.
Me thirsty.
Can you get them some Pepsis,
please? On me.
All right?
You see? Very bad.
Yeah, it's terrible.
Can you fix it?
Can fix.
Be ready tomorrow.
No, no, no, no. Not tomorrow.
Today. Right now.
Need part.
I take to city. $5.
I'm not gonna
leave the bike here.
You sleep in late.
I'm gonna fix it tomorrow.
No girl, okay?
Just room. Sleep.
Girl go hotel.
No come room tonight.
And, uh...
Holly!
Hmm?
You like?
She still virgin.
Not yet open.
I give you good price.
Just the room, thanks.
Hey.
Here.
You play?
Cards?
I'm an attorney.
Forget I asked.
I'm Klaus.
Patrick.
Bring me the fried rice.
The noodle soup
is excellent.
All right.
I'll try the noodle soup.
Isn't it something?
I never felt
so close to heaven.
Do you see the girl
with the black dress?
Like a wild flower,
growing on the harsh land,
rooted within the rocks,
blossoming in the wind.
The smell of gods
and the thorns of the devil.
Baba.
She's completely
in love with me.
I can tell.
Be careful there.
This is
an expensive delight.
What is?
Deflowering a kid.
Popping a cherry,
as you Americans
like to call it.
I don't sleep with little girls,
you sick fuck.
I beg your pardon?
What you doing here, then?
Got lost on the way
to the temples? Please.
Baba,
you are so beautiful.
Let's go.
Good luck.
I don't want that.
No soup. Fried rice.
Fried rice.
Vietnam?
Let's go.
Xin cho.
What's your name?
Holly.
Xin cho, Holly.
My name's Patrick.
Come, sir, come.
Come where?
- I take you baby.
Huh? What baby?
Come. You like.
Come.
Yeah.
Yeah, all right.
Come, come.
We go baby.
Hey, hey, hey,
no touching.
Huh?
No, no, let go. Let go.
No, all right, let go.
All right, here.
How much longer you gonna be
with this thing?
Could you wait about three,
four hour?
You can just stand by.
You want to go somewhere.
You want some help
with that?
I okay.
Just let me help you,
all right?
No, I okay.
You're stubborn,
you know that?
What stubborn?
Turn around.
Go on,
just turn around.
What stubborn?
Strong, tough.
You only do
what you want to do.
You don't do what anybody
tells you -- stubborn.
Yes, I stubborn.
I know you are.
It's okay.
I don't like the berries.
Eat.
All right.
Same as a monkey.
Eat.
All right, all right.
All right, all right, all right.
Mmm.
Thanks.
Hey, hop on.
Come on.
Hang on.
Thank you very much.
You speak very well.
Where did you learn?
From tourists.
From tourists.
Oh, really?
Okay, get set.
And Brake.
Brake.
Good, good,
good, good, good.
Okay.
Go on and straighten it out.
Straighten it out.
Straighten it out.
Yeah.
All right.
Straighten it out.
When you're ready.
And Brake.
Brake.
Okay, one more.
Here you go.
Keep it ahead.
Okay.
Mm. American man.
Staying here.
Tall.
Black hair.
Red moto.
- Black hair.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Don't hit her!
You take her, you pay.
We just went out
for a drive.
You take her,
you pay.
All right.
Good?
You like girl? Huh?
I'm sorry, all right?
I got to go.
Okay?
Give me shirt.
I clean.
No, they're gonna wash it
at the hotel for me.
I clean. No money.
It's okay. Thanks.
You stubborn.
Give me shirt. I clean now.
You go later.
Okay.
You only get one life...
So you got to try
and make the most of it.
I yum yum...
Boom boom.
No princess next life.
No! No!
No, no, no, no! Go, go, go!
I'm just looking for --
- She no here! Come, come, come!
It's fine.
I just want to talk to her.
Go! No, no!
Okay.
Okay, I'm going.
I'm going.
You want to, uh,
get something to eat?
Come on.
Ah, poker face.
Got to
keep your poker face.
That's where it all starts.
All right,
you'll work on that.
This game same same,
yes?
No, no, no.
See, it's a street game.
It's crap. Too many cards.
Poker's professional.
It's big money.
You good poker?
Yeah.
You make many money?
No.
Why no?
Never had much luck,
either.
see?
You got me beat.
I like.
Yeah, you like that?
I like it, too.
Hey. What did I do?
You no tough.
We tough.
Oh, yeah?
You don't look so tough.
Me no tough?
I'll kill you.
You no worry.
She kill you, I kill her.
Okay.
Hey, hey! Hey, hey!
Hey, hey! All right, all right,
all right! Knock it off!
I kill you!
- I kill you better!
Knock it off, knock it off.
All right, all right, all right.
Go on! Get out of here!
Go on! Get out of here!
All right.
All right, tiger.
All right.
Hey.
What are you doing
in here?
It's the middle
of the night.
What?
What do you mean,
buy you?
Huh?
Holly big.
Holly sister no big, okay?
Okay.
Okay.
I no want sister
come here.
I yum yum you.
You no money me, okay?
Y-you no like me?
Angkor?
Yes, Angkor.
Stole in the war,
and Freddie sell it in Bangkok
for $500 each.
Makes very good money.
Little bonus in there
for you.
Hi.
Hey.
Hey.
Uh, Holly?
Oh. Holly go.
She no here.
I give you other girl.
No, I don't want another girl.
I'm looking for Holly.
She go. She no here.
She no back.
What do you mean,
she no back?
She bad girl. Trouble.
I sell her man.
You go or I call man!
You married, Klaus?
No. Not anymore.
You got kids?
A daughter. She's 14.
You have a daughter.
Something funny?
You're an attorney,
and you have a daughter.
How can I come here?
Yeah.
They have a different
set of values here,
different morals.
We cannot understand that.
What does that mean?
It is their way.
Their family sells them,
and they go willingly...
because it takes a sacrifice,
a need to survive.
It's gone on for ages...
long before we got here.
They have a lot
of prostitutes in this region,
and who do you think
they cater to?
Tourists?
They got 5-year-olds negotiating
blowjobs in a back alley.
You call them prostitutes?
You see the girl?
That's what I like.
I don't go
for the little ones.
Hello, baby lover.
Your girlfriend go?
You know where she went?
She go many man.
She forget you.
Come on, Klaus.
You miss Holly?
We go hotel.
I make you forget.
We go Hotel Phnom Penh,
okay?
Why you sad?
What's wrong?
You shy?
I'm no pretty like Holly.
No, you're pretty.
You're very pretty.
How do you say that
in Vietnamese?
Em dep lam.
"you are beautiful."
Em dep lam.
Holly dep lam, too.
Do you know where she is?
She go other city
with Vibal.
Vibal?
Who's Vibal?
Vibal, ohn.
Okay. Do you know
where they went?
Mm...
I think Siemrab.
What you do?
You go Siemrab?
Yeah.
Holly little girl, virgin.
You pay many money.
You buy me. A good deal.
I cook you. I clean.
You no do anything.
Holly's a little girl.
Holly can't take care
of herself.
You...
Why don't you just
run away?
No, no can.
Family no see Lan again.
Lan bad girl.
Boom boom many man.
Have no place to go.
Have to buy.
Holly same same.
Well, how much?
How much to buy Holly?
Holly?
Maybe $2,000.
Lan $500.
Maybe $400.
Well, I don't have enough money
to buy anybody.
You go Siemrab.
# I love you, girl #
# hey, sexy lady #
# hey, sexy lady #
This boat go Batdambang.
Phnom Penh?
No, Batdambang.
Where Batdambang?
Batdambang there.
Phnom Penh there.
Where Vietnam?
Phnom Penh there.
Vietnam.
I go Batdambang, okay?!
- I no money.
No money, no boat.
Please, me no good here.
Please, I go Batdambang.
No money, no boat.
I'm sorry.
You take.
I go Batdambang.
Okay. Go.
He --
he's a trafficker.
Yeah, I know.
So...
Why, you lonely
in the nights?
It's a personal thing.
There's crime,
and there's crime.
These people already have
a reservation for hell.
They care about nothing.
Your life...maybe $5.
And I will miss you.
Okay.
But you take Thom
with you.
Just in case.
You no look there.
I look where I want.
You go city?
Yes.
I come.
- No.
I go bus Phnom Penh.
Mother wait.
Oh, come on here.
Hmm?
Come on.
I go Phnom Penh.
Phnom Penh?
I go Phnom Penh!
Go home.
I want to take her back
with me.
And I have money.
She dead.
What do you mean,
she's dead?
Huh? I-I don't --
I don't understand.
What do you mean,
she's dead?
Dead. Kaput.
Understand?
Boom. No boom boom.
You know?
Wait a minute.
Wait a second.
Next time I see you,
you die.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hmm.
Hi!
Hi, hi!
Excuse me.
I deserve to be slapped
by a couple people,
but I don't think
you're one of them.
And so you know, I'm not one of
your perverts, either.
So, what were you going to do
if you found her in time?
I don't know.
I didn't get that far.
Buy her, I guess.
What did I do now?
Patrick, I don't
want to offend you.
But when you buy a girl,
you're supporting the trade.
You encourage them
to keep on going.
You become a part
of the operation.
So, what was I supposed to do,
just leave her there?
There are over 30,000
child prostitutes in Cambodia.
Uh-huh.
Let's say we're gonna buy
every single one of them.
What do you think
will happen?
I don't know.
Next year,
there will be 60,000,
And their price
will be higher.
Well, I wasn't trying to
help 60,000 girls.
I was trying to help one.
First time I came here,
I was just a volunteer.
I thought it would be cool,
you know?
Different experience.
I met Jonathan,
and I guess...
I was mesmerized by him,
so I decided to stay...
For love.
Anyhow,
after the love was gone...
I realized
I've become too involved,
too connected.
Seeing the people here,
how they're able to smile after
all they've been through...
I don't know many people who can
turn their backs on that.
What about you?
How long have you been here?
Uh...
Well,
I came to Southeast Asia...
a couple years out of school
and started working...
a bunch of different jobs.
Still here.
I see.
You're some kind of
a spec trade or something?
No, no, no, no, no.
I didn't sign up for all that.
I don't understand.
I mean, what do you do?
What do you live for?
I don't know.
What's anyone here live for?
Just trying to survive.
It was very nice
talking to you.
Come visit us sometime.
Hey.
Hey!
Where did you get that?
Yeah, yeah, that.
Where did you get that?
Girl gave me.
Hold on,
hold on, hold on.
This girl?
- Yeah, yeah!
Is this girl.
This girl?
This girl.
Boat Batdambang.
No, this --
this girl is dead.
One month ago.
See Batdambang boat,
one month.
Hey, hey.
Uh, how much?
Yeah, how much?
No, me like.
Yeah, I like it, too.
How much?
Vietnamese?
- Yeah.
Batdambang is not many.
We find her easy.
We go other?
Yeah, brothels.
I go in. Pretend.
Uh-huh.
I'll pay.
You stay in the car.
All right.
Listen, what if she's not in
one of the brothels?
You understand?
Not -- not a prostitute.
She's not a prostitute.
Then we go
to the street kids.
All right.
But...
no many Vietnamese girl.
Yeah.
Can I see?
You can follow her.
It's okay.
All right.
You wait here.
Okay.
Holly, hey.
How are you?
It's Patrick.
Short time, $5.
We go hotel, $20.
What?
No, it's me.
It's Patrick.
We go hotel?
You don't know who I am?
I many men.
We go room now, okay?
No.
No, no, no.
Patrick.
You know, cards?
The...motorcycle.
We picked the berries together.
I picked you up, remember?
You don't remember that?
I picked you up?
Remember?
Ma!
What you do?
Nothing.
I didn't do anything.
I have client waiting her.
You take her hotel or no?
I tired.
We boom boom now.
I go sleep, okay?
Listen to me.
No boom boom.
No yum yum.
Okay?
It's all right.
It's okay.
Come here.
It's okay.
It's all right.
Come on.
See?
Em dep lam.
Stop!
Come on.
You're crazy!
Stop it!
Stop!
I'm sorry.
Okay?
Hey.
Where the hell
did you go?
She need come back
morning.
You take her now.
Bring back morning.
$20.
You want?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
No.
It's okay.
All right, come on.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's all right.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
Okay.
Come on.
- Ma angry! Ma kill you!
I need go back!
You're not going back there
ever again.
Do you understand?
What you think...
...we do?
What do you want to do?
I want to go village
right now.
You still love
your parents?
Yes.
Even after
what they did to you?
They no money food.
Mother all work hard.
Father sick.
He many drink.
I rich.
I give them money.
They no sell sister.
You're a good person.
Why don't you try
and get some sleep?
Hmm?
Come.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
Now...
Come here.
"I don't sleep with
little girls, you sick fuck."
No! N-no fight!
No good!
Hypocrite.
Import/export --
leave a message.
Hey, Freddie, it's me.
Listen, I'm sorry about that,
uh, shipment.
I had something come up.
I actually want to
talk to you about it,
and I need to come by
and pick up my money.
Uh...
why don't you give me a call?
I'm staying --
I'll just -- you know what?
I-I'll call you back.
I'll try you back later.
C-come. Sit.
What's up?
I love you.
What?
We go village.
Take sister.
Go America.
I wife you.
No. You --
you can't wife me.
You're, like, 12 years old,
all right?
You're a little kid.
I woman. I many men.
I can wife you.
Okay, uh...
Why don't you go
sit over there for now?
Go on. Go sit over there.
I mean it.
You no love me?
No, it's --
Okay, let's, uh --
let's just slow that down there.
You other girl.
I kill her.
No, nobody's gonna
kill anybody.
Sit --
- I kill you!
I love you!
You no other girl!
I jealous you!
You don't
need to be jealous.
W-where you go?
I'm just -- I got to --
I got to do some things.
I'll be back.
I don't know.
Try to get some sleep
or watch TV.
Do whatever you want,
okay?
Tomorrow...
we're gonna figure out
what to do.
Thank you.
All right, come on.
We no go Vietnam?
Yeah, we're going.
It's, uh -- it's just not that
easy to get across the border.
I think these people
can help.
Come on.
Hi.
Hello.
Can I help you?
Marie?
I really like your hair.
You hungry?
Why don't you go with Wen?
She'll get your breakfast.
Patrick come, too.
No.
Patrick and me need to talk
about how to help you.
Okay?
Go.
Come.
They are smuggled in.
The village where you found her
is run by the Vietnamese Mafia.
So...how do I
get her back home?
If you try
and take her back,
they will arrest her
for illegal immigration.
Probably arrest you,
as well.
What if I took her back
to the States?
You can't.
They've put a ban
on adoption from this region
in fear that people will use it
as a shield for trafficking.
But even if you could,
you really think
that you can take care of her?
I promised her that I would
try to help save her sister.
You don't even know
if you saved her yet.
What do you mean?
It takes five minutes
to rescue a girl from a brothel,
but it takes five years
to reintegrate her into society
and save her.
Listen, I appreciate
what you did. I do.
But if you really
did it for her,
you have to let it go.
So, I just dump her here,
and that's it?
That's the happy ending?
As long as it's not tragic,
it's happy.
Can I come visit her,
see how she's doing?
She's 12 years old,
and her male perspective
is of one who abuses,
rapes, and enslaves her.
Here, we try and make this girl
forget all this.
You're always gonna be
a part of this world.
It's not good for her.
And quite frankly,
I don't think it's good
for you, either.
Everything is fine now.
You are safe.
Can I take this?
Where Patrick?
You know where you are,
Holly?
In this place, we try to help
little kids like you,
kids who have been
to very bad places
instead of going to school,
playing with their friends.
You understand?
You're very lucky.
They're about to start
a dance class.
Do you like dancing?
Holly?
Holly.
Why are you not in your room,
sleeping,
like everybody else?
I wait Patrick.
Holly...
...Patrick
is not coming back.
So, you know?
Yeah, I know.
How bad?
Well, a couple local mob guys
came to my office today.
What are you thinking, man?
Are you stupid?
It was the right thing
to do, Freddie.
Right thing to do.
Yeah, well...
See that river there,
the Mekong?
How many fucking millions of
bodies been rolling down that.
"The right thing to do."
You'd have been laying in that
thing if it wasn't for me.
Where's the girl?
No, she's gone.
They're not gonna buy that.
I don't care.
She's gone.
Here.
What's this?
- Take it.
It's a one-way ticket
to America.
I can't go back there, Freddie.
You know that.
You don't have
a fucking choice.
Been 15 years, buddy.
Nobody remembers anything.
Get the fuck home.
Look, I gave them
what I owed you,
and I paid for the rest.
You're heading out tomorrow.
You're finished here.
I'm not going back.
They're gonna kill you,
Patrick, okay?
For once in your life,
you got lucky.
Take advantage of it.
Yeah.
I appreciate the thought.
Yeah.
Will you do me a favor?
Just tell me why.
Look, I know how it works,
all right?
I walk by
a hundred kids a day --
grabbing for hand-outs,
fucking pushing
bullshit souvenirs.
Okay? And I know
you can't help them.
You can't even try.
You give them money,
someone takes it.
You teach them to beg.
How many bullshit souvenirs
does one guy need, anyway?
Then you develop
this glazed-eye stare.
You know, you walk straight.
You don't look at them.
And you never stop.
And then you're fine.
Long as you don't look
in their eyes, you're fine.
What the fuck does that
have to do with anything?
I stopped, Freddie.
It was just an accident,
but I stopped.
And I looked
into her eyes.
You can't stop, Patrick.
Got to keep moving.
Otherwise,
life moves right by.
You know, it's time.
You've been here too long.
These ain't your people.
Just go back to America.
If you're so worried
about little Vietnamese girls,
write your Congressman.
How you have photo?
You go Batdambang?
Yeah, Batdambang.
You know this girl?
I have her first.
She good.
Hmm?
Hmm?
Hmm?
He's bluffing.
Freddie fucking Getz.
Holy shit.
It's Asia's favorite white man.
What the hell are you
doing in this place?
Just trying to save
another lost soul, brother.
Shitter's in the back.
Go check the mirror,
and you might find one.
Unh-unh.
Unh-unh.
All right, go ahead.
Tick-tick shit.
You still doing laundry?
No, I, uh...
gave myself a promotion.
I'm sending out.
Oh.
How's Bangkok these days?
Bangkok's Bangkok.
Yeah?
What, do you got
a sweetheart down here?
No, just business.
We've expanded.
Good for you.
So have I.
You got that beat?
Wait, three -- wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait!
Three fucking aces? You can't
have three fucking aces.
I've got two aces
right there!
That's five aces! How the fuck
do you get five aces?!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Come on, let's go.
- All right.
I don't know how you get
five fucking aces in a deck!
We're going. We're going.
All right, all right.
It's good. It's good.
Just go.
- Fine, fine.
Let's go.
Keep the money.
If you're gonna cheat,
fucking learn to cheat.
Fucking asshole.
American, fuck you!
I need a drink.
You got any money left?
Yeah, you think I'm gonna lose
to those clowns?
You left all your money
in the pot.
I walked in
with about a third of this.
White guy
looks like he goes bust,
I get home safe,
everybody's happy.
Smooth operation,
Freddie.
Maybe you should quit
while you're ahead, Patrick.
Fuck off.
How much money you got
in your pocket, huh?
Enough for, what,
three meals,
roof over your head?
I'm doing all right.
You're doing all right.
I'm talking about nice money,
you know.
You could
start something with it.
What am I gonna start?
Well, I don't know.
Something.
It's easy.
It's simple money.
I don't know.
I'm not doing that
anymore, okay?
I'm a card player.
You're a card player.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure you are.
Is this Vegas?
- I'm sorry.
I didn't see the big casinos
and the lights.
Cut the fucking crap,
Patrick.
Hello?
Barkeep!
Yes, sir?
I want to pay his bill.
That's my number, buddy.
Use it
if you grow a brain.
Yeah, good to see you.
Shh.
Turn over.
Turn over.
I like you.
Hi.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello. I love you.
I have new girl.
Huh?
She upstairs.
Really new. She virgin.
How much?
One week, $1,000.
Too much.
No too much. She very beauty.
Very beautiful.
No, too much.
I discount you!
$900!
Bye!
Bye-bye!
So, what do you think?
Well...
Very inconspicuous.
So am I.
Are you sure you want to go
on that thing?
I trust that thing
more than I trust you.
It's a big mistake.
Hey. Be back
in three or four days.
You got it.
Gas?
For gas.
Gas -- straight back.
Straight back.
Straight back. Oh, okay.
Thank you.
And another four.
Yeah, four of you.
This is ridiculous.
Hey.
Pedro.
Need some gas.
No gas. Gas later.
What do you mean?
When's later?
Come on.
Hey. You buy me beer?
Me, too.
No.
I thirsty.
Thirsty for love.
Uh...
Okay.
Go back to your table.
Me no go.
Me thirsty.
Can you get them some Pepsis,
please? On me.
All right?
You see? Very bad.
Yeah, it's terrible.
Can you fix it?
Can fix.
Be ready tomorrow.
No, no, no, no. Not tomorrow.
Today. Right now.
Need part.
I take to city. $5.
I'm not gonna
leave the bike here.
You sleep in late.
I'm gonna fix it tomorrow.
No girl, okay?
Just room. Sleep.
Girl go hotel.
No come room tonight.
And, uh...
Holly!
Hmm?
You like?
She still virgin.
Not yet open.
I give you good price.
Just the room, thanks.
Hey.
Here.
You play?
Cards?
I'm an attorney.
Forget I asked.
I'm Klaus.
Patrick.
Bring me the fried rice.
The noodle soup
is excellent.
All right.
I'll try the noodle soup.
Isn't it something?
I never felt
so close to heaven.
Do you see the girl
with the black dress?
Like a wild flower,
growing on the harsh land,
rooted within the rocks,
blossoming in the wind.
The smell of gods
and the thorns of the devil.
Baba.
She's completely
in love with me.
I can tell.
Be careful there.
This is
an expensive delight.
What is?
Deflowering a kid.
Popping a cherry,
as you Americans
like to call it.
I don't sleep with little girls,
you sick fuck.
I beg your pardon?
What you doing here, then?
Got lost on the way
to the temples? Please.
Baba,
you are so beautiful.
Let's go.
Good luck.
I don't want that.
No soup. Fried rice.
Fried rice.
Vietnam?
Let's go.
Xin cho.
What's your name?
Holly.
Xin cho, Holly.
My name's Patrick.
Come, sir, come.
Come where?
- I take you baby.
Huh? What baby?
Come. You like.
Come.
Yeah.
Yeah, all right.
Come, come.
We go baby.
Hey, hey, hey,
no touching.
Huh?
No, no, let go. Let go.
No, all right, let go.
All right, here.
How much longer you gonna be
with this thing?
Could you wait about three,
four hour?
You can just stand by.
You want to go somewhere.
You want some help
with that?
I okay.
Just let me help you,
all right?
No, I okay.
You're stubborn,
you know that?
What stubborn?
Turn around.
Go on,
just turn around.
What stubborn?
Strong, tough.
You only do
what you want to do.
You don't do what anybody
tells you -- stubborn.
Yes, I stubborn.
I know you are.
It's okay.
I don't like the berries.
Eat.
All right.
Same as a monkey.
Eat.
All right, all right.
All right, all right, all right.
Mmm.
Thanks.
Hey, hop on.
Come on.
Hang on.
Thank you very much.
You speak very well.
Where did you learn?
From tourists.
From tourists.
Oh, really?
Okay, get set.
And Brake.
Brake.
Good, good,
good, good, good.
Okay.
Go on and straighten it out.
Straighten it out.
Straighten it out.
Yeah.
All right.
Straighten it out.
When you're ready.
And Brake.
Brake.
Okay, one more.
Here you go.
Keep it ahead.
Okay.
Mm. American man.
Staying here.
Tall.
Black hair.
Red moto.
- Black hair.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Don't hit her!
You take her, you pay.
We just went out
for a drive.
You take her,
you pay.
All right.
Good?
You like girl? Huh?
I'm sorry, all right?
I got to go.
Okay?
Give me shirt.
I clean.
No, they're gonna wash it
at the hotel for me.
I clean. No money.
It's okay. Thanks.
You stubborn.
Give me shirt. I clean now.
You go later.
Okay.
You only get one life...
So you got to try
and make the most of it.
I yum yum...
Boom boom.
No princess next life.
No! No!
No, no, no, no! Go, go, go!
I'm just looking for --
- She no here! Come, come, come!
It's fine.
I just want to talk to her.
Go! No, no!
Okay.
Okay, I'm going.
I'm going.
You want to, uh,
get something to eat?
Come on.
Ah, poker face.
Got to
keep your poker face.
That's where it all starts.
All right,
you'll work on that.
This game same same,
yes?
No, no, no.
See, it's a street game.
It's crap. Too many cards.
Poker's professional.
It's big money.
You good poker?
Yeah.
You make many money?
No.
Why no?
Never had much luck,
either.
see?
You got me beat.
I like.
Yeah, you like that?
I like it, too.
Hey. What did I do?
You no tough.
We tough.
Oh, yeah?
You don't look so tough.
Me no tough?
I'll kill you.
You no worry.
She kill you, I kill her.
Okay.
Hey, hey! Hey, hey!
Hey, hey! All right, all right,
all right! Knock it off!
I kill you!
- I kill you better!
Knock it off, knock it off.
All right, all right, all right.
Go on! Get out of here!
Go on! Get out of here!
All right.
All right, tiger.
All right.
Hey.
What are you doing
in here?
It's the middle
of the night.
What?
What do you mean,
buy you?
Huh?
Holly big.
Holly sister no big, okay?
Okay.
Okay.
I no want sister
come here.
I yum yum you.
You no money me, okay?
Y-you no like me?
Angkor?
Yes, Angkor.
Stole in the war,
and Freddie sell it in Bangkok
for $500 each.
Makes very good money.
Little bonus in there
for you.
Hi.
Hey.
Hey.
Uh, Holly?
Oh. Holly go.
She no here.
I give you other girl.
No, I don't want another girl.
I'm looking for Holly.
She go. She no here.
She no back.
What do you mean,
she no back?
She bad girl. Trouble.
I sell her man.
You go or I call man!
You married, Klaus?
No. Not anymore.
You got kids?
A daughter. She's 14.
You have a daughter.
Something funny?
You're an attorney,
and you have a daughter.
How can I come here?
Yeah.
They have a different
set of values here,
different morals.
We cannot understand that.
What does that mean?
It is their way.
Their family sells them,
and they go willingly...
because it takes a sacrifice,
a need to survive.
It's gone on for ages...
long before we got here.
They have a lot
of prostitutes in this region,
and who do you think
they cater to?
Tourists?
They got 5-year-olds negotiating
blowjobs in a back alley.
You call them prostitutes?
You see the girl?
That's what I like.
I don't go
for the little ones.
Hello, baby lover.
Your girlfriend go?
You know where she went?
She go many man.
She forget you.
Come on, Klaus.
You miss Holly?
We go hotel.
I make you forget.
We go Hotel Phnom Penh,
okay?
Why you sad?
What's wrong?
You shy?
I'm no pretty like Holly.
No, you're pretty.
You're very pretty.
How do you say that
in Vietnamese?
Em dep lam.
"you are beautiful."
Em dep lam.
Holly dep lam, too.
Do you know where she is?
She go other city
with Vibal.
Vibal?
Who's Vibal?
Vibal, ohn.
Okay. Do you know
where they went?
Mm...
I think Siemrab.
What you do?
You go Siemrab?
Yeah.
Holly little girl, virgin.
You pay many money.
You buy me. A good deal.
I cook you. I clean.
You no do anything.
Holly's a little girl.
Holly can't take care
of herself.
You...
Why don't you just
run away?
No, no can.
Family no see Lan again.
Lan bad girl.
Boom boom many man.
Have no place to go.
Have to buy.
Holly same same.
Well, how much?
How much to buy Holly?
Holly?
Maybe $2,000.
Lan $500.
Maybe $400.
Well, I don't have enough money
to buy anybody.
You go Siemrab.
# I love you, girl #
# hey, sexy lady #
# hey, sexy lady #
This boat go Batdambang.
Phnom Penh?
No, Batdambang.
Where Batdambang?
Batdambang there.
Phnom Penh there.
Where Vietnam?
Phnom Penh there.
Vietnam.
I go Batdambang, okay?!
- I no money.
No money, no boat.
Please, me no good here.
Please, I go Batdambang.
No money, no boat.
I'm sorry.
You take.
I go Batdambang.
Okay. Go.
He --
he's a trafficker.
Yeah, I know.
So...
Why, you lonely
in the nights?
It's a personal thing.
There's crime,
and there's crime.
These people already have
a reservation for hell.
They care about nothing.
Your life...maybe $5.
And I will miss you.
Okay.
But you take Thom
with you.
Just in case.
You no look there.
I look where I want.
You go city?
Yes.
I come.
- No.
I go bus Phnom Penh.
Mother wait.
Oh, come on here.
Hmm?
Come on.
I go Phnom Penh.
Phnom Penh?
I go Phnom Penh!
Go home.
I want to take her back
with me.
And I have money.
She dead.
What do you mean,
she's dead?
Huh? I-I don't --
I don't understand.
What do you mean,
she's dead?
Dead. Kaput.
Understand?
Boom. No boom boom.
You know?
Wait a minute.
Wait a second.
Next time I see you,
you die.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hmm.
Hi!
Hi, hi!
Excuse me.
I deserve to be slapped
by a couple people,
but I don't think
you're one of them.
And so you know, I'm not one of
your perverts, either.
So, what were you going to do
if you found her in time?
I don't know.
I didn't get that far.
Buy her, I guess.
What did I do now?
Patrick, I don't
want to offend you.
But when you buy a girl,
you're supporting the trade.
You encourage them
to keep on going.
You become a part
of the operation.
So, what was I supposed to do,
just leave her there?
There are over 30,000
child prostitutes in Cambodia.
Uh-huh.
Let's say we're gonna buy
every single one of them.
What do you think
will happen?
I don't know.
Next year,
there will be 60,000,
And their price
will be higher.
Well, I wasn't trying to
help 60,000 girls.
I was trying to help one.
First time I came here,
I was just a volunteer.
I thought it would be cool,
you know?
Different experience.
I met Jonathan,
and I guess...
I was mesmerized by him,
so I decided to stay...
For love.
Anyhow,
after the love was gone...
I realized
I've become too involved,
too connected.
Seeing the people here,
how they're able to smile after
all they've been through...
I don't know many people who can
turn their backs on that.
What about you?
How long have you been here?
Uh...
Well,
I came to Southeast Asia...
a couple years out of school
and started working...
a bunch of different jobs.
Still here.
I see.
You're some kind of
a spec trade or something?
No, no, no, no, no.
I didn't sign up for all that.
I don't understand.
I mean, what do you do?
What do you live for?
I don't know.
What's anyone here live for?
Just trying to survive.
It was very nice
talking to you.
Come visit us sometime.
Hey.
Hey!
Where did you get that?
Yeah, yeah, that.
Where did you get that?
Girl gave me.
Hold on,
hold on, hold on.
This girl?
- Yeah, yeah!
Is this girl.
This girl?
This girl.
Boat Batdambang.
No, this --
this girl is dead.
One month ago.
See Batdambang boat,
one month.
Hey, hey.
Uh, how much?
Yeah, how much?
No, me like.
Yeah, I like it, too.
How much?
Vietnamese?
- Yeah.
Batdambang is not many.
We find her easy.
We go other?
Yeah, brothels.
I go in. Pretend.
Uh-huh.
I'll pay.
You stay in the car.
All right.
Listen, what if she's not in
one of the brothels?
You understand?
Not -- not a prostitute.
She's not a prostitute.
Then we go
to the street kids.
All right.
But...
no many Vietnamese girl.
Yeah.
Can I see?
You can follow her.
It's okay.
All right.
You wait here.
Okay.
Holly, hey.
How are you?
It's Patrick.
Short time, $5.
We go hotel, $20.
What?
No, it's me.
It's Patrick.
We go hotel?
You don't know who I am?
I many men.
We go room now, okay?
No.
No, no, no.
Patrick.
You know, cards?
The...motorcycle.
We picked the berries together.
I picked you up, remember?
You don't remember that?
I picked you up?
Remember?
Ma!
What you do?
Nothing.
I didn't do anything.
I have client waiting her.
You take her hotel or no?
I tired.
We boom boom now.
I go sleep, okay?
Listen to me.
No boom boom.
No yum yum.
Okay?
It's all right.
It's okay.
Come here.
It's okay.
It's all right.
Come on.
See?
Em dep lam.
Stop!
Come on.
You're crazy!
Stop it!
Stop!
I'm sorry.
Okay?
Hey.
Where the hell
did you go?
She need come back
morning.
You take her now.
Bring back morning.
$20.
You want?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
Shoeshine, mister?
No.
It's okay.
All right, come on.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's all right.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
Okay.
Come on.
- Ma angry! Ma kill you!
I need go back!
You're not going back there
ever again.
Do you understand?
What you think...
...we do?
What do you want to do?
I want to go village
right now.
You still love
your parents?
Yes.
Even after
what they did to you?
They no money food.
Mother all work hard.
Father sick.
He many drink.
I rich.
I give them money.
They no sell sister.
You're a good person.
Why don't you try
and get some sleep?
Hmm?
Come.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
All right, all right.
Now...
Come here.
"I don't sleep with
little girls, you sick fuck."
No! N-no fight!
No good!
Hypocrite.
Import/export --
leave a message.
Hey, Freddie, it's me.
Listen, I'm sorry about that,
uh, shipment.
I had something come up.
I actually want to
talk to you about it,
and I need to come by
and pick up my money.
Uh...
why don't you give me a call?
I'm staying --
I'll just -- you know what?
I-I'll call you back.
I'll try you back later.
C-come. Sit.
What's up?
I love you.
What?
We go village.
Take sister.
Go America.
I wife you.
No. You --
you can't wife me.
You're, like, 12 years old,
all right?
You're a little kid.
I woman. I many men.
I can wife you.
Okay, uh...
Why don't you go
sit over there for now?
Go on. Go sit over there.
I mean it.
You no love me?
No, it's --
Okay, let's, uh --
let's just slow that down there.
You other girl.
I kill her.
No, nobody's gonna
kill anybody.
Sit --
- I kill you!
I love you!
You no other girl!
I jealous you!
You don't
need to be jealous.
W-where you go?
I'm just -- I got to --
I got to do some things.
I'll be back.
I don't know.
Try to get some sleep
or watch TV.
Do whatever you want,
okay?
Tomorrow...
we're gonna figure out
what to do.
Thank you.
All right, come on.
We no go Vietnam?
Yeah, we're going.
It's, uh -- it's just not that
easy to get across the border.
I think these people
can help.
Come on.
Hi.
Hello.
Can I help you?
Marie?
I really like your hair.
You hungry?
Why don't you go with Wen?
She'll get your breakfast.
Patrick come, too.
No.
Patrick and me need to talk
about how to help you.
Okay?
Go.
Come.
They are smuggled in.
The village where you found her
is run by the Vietnamese Mafia.
So...how do I
get her back home?
If you try
and take her back,
they will arrest her
for illegal immigration.
Probably arrest you,
as well.
What if I took her back
to the States?
You can't.
They've put a ban
on adoption from this region
in fear that people will use it
as a shield for trafficking.
But even if you could,
you really think
that you can take care of her?
I promised her that I would
try to help save her sister.
You don't even know
if you saved her yet.
What do you mean?
It takes five minutes
to rescue a girl from a brothel,
but it takes five years
to reintegrate her into society
and save her.
Listen, I appreciate
what you did. I do.
But if you really
did it for her,
you have to let it go.
So, I just dump her here,
and that's it?
That's the happy ending?
As long as it's not tragic,
it's happy.
Can I come visit her,
see how she's doing?
She's 12 years old,
and her male perspective
is of one who abuses,
rapes, and enslaves her.
Here, we try and make this girl
forget all this.
You're always gonna be
a part of this world.
It's not good for her.
And quite frankly,
I don't think it's good
for you, either.
Everything is fine now.
You are safe.
Can I take this?
Where Patrick?
You know where you are,
Holly?
In this place, we try to help
little kids like you,
kids who have been
to very bad places
instead of going to school,
playing with their friends.
You understand?
You're very lucky.
They're about to start
a dance class.
Do you like dancing?
Holly?
Holly.
Why are you not in your room,
sleeping,
like everybody else?
I wait Patrick.
Holly...
...Patrick
is not coming back.
So, you know?
Yeah, I know.
How bad?
Well, a couple local mob guys
came to my office today.
What are you thinking, man?
Are you stupid?
It was the right thing
to do, Freddie.
Right thing to do.
Yeah, well...
See that river there,
the Mekong?
How many fucking millions of
bodies been rolling down that.
"The right thing to do."
You'd have been laying in that
thing if it wasn't for me.
Where's the girl?
No, she's gone.
They're not gonna buy that.
I don't care.
She's gone.
Here.
What's this?
- Take it.
It's a one-way ticket
to America.
I can't go back there, Freddie.
You know that.
You don't have
a fucking choice.
Been 15 years, buddy.
Nobody remembers anything.
Get the fuck home.
Look, I gave them
what I owed you,
and I paid for the rest.
You're heading out tomorrow.
You're finished here.
I'm not going back.
They're gonna kill you,
Patrick, okay?
For once in your life,
you got lucky.
Take advantage of it.
Yeah.
I appreciate the thought.
Yeah.
Will you do me a favor?
Just tell me why.
Look, I know how it works,
all right?
I walk by
a hundred kids a day --
grabbing for hand-outs,
fucking pushing
bullshit souvenirs.
Okay? And I know
you can't help them.
You can't even try.
You give them money,
someone takes it.
You teach them to beg.
How many bullshit souvenirs
does one guy need, anyway?
Then you develop
this glazed-eye stare.
You know, you walk straight.
You don't look at them.
And you never stop.
And then you're fine.
Long as you don't look
in their eyes, you're fine.
What the fuck does that
have to do with anything?
I stopped, Freddie.
It was just an accident,
but I stopped.
And I looked
into her eyes.
You can't stop, Patrick.
Got to keep moving.
Otherwise,
life moves right by.
You know, it's time.
You've been here too long.
These ain't your people.
Just go back to America.
If you're so worried
about little Vietnamese girls,
write your Congressman.
How you have photo?
You go Batdambang?
Yeah, Batdambang.
You know this girl?
I have her first.
She good.