I have an encouraging story for anyone trying to get a conversation about how widespread child sex trafficking is (and what POTUS has been doing about it).

For anyone out there who is a #WalkAway / #DemExit (like me) whose friends and family are all on the left end of the political spectrum, I found something that has actually opened the door just a crack to start this discussion!!

If you know someone who is into indie movie, foreign films, and that kind of stuff (you know, Academy Awards stuff), watch the movie, LION, with them. I hate that it's a damn Weinstein Company movie, but there are scenes in there that woke my BF up!

Lion is based on the true story of a 5-year-old Indian boy who accidentally gets trapped on a decommissioned train for several days, ends up in a part of India where no one speaks his language and he doesn't know the name of his village, ends up getting adopted out to a couple in Australia, and ultimately returns to India 20+ years later to search for his mother, brother, and sister. It's slow paced and very emotionally triggering (be forewarned). I would actually let the other person know that the film has a happy ending before you watch it or some may stop watching before getting too far into it. The beginning is so hard to watch. I'll admit that if I hadn't known going in that it ended well, I'm not sure I would've gotten past the first 30 minutes or so.

There's one scene where this boy narrowly escapes getting sold to a trafficker, but just in case the viewer didn't pick up on exactly what was going on (because it was vaguely implied), it shows it more clearly in a second scene at an orphanage where another boy is trafficked out overnight and the person taking him is told to bring him back by morning.

This movie affected me so much, and I knew it would affect my BF. Have info ready to give them like links to Fiona Barrett's testimony, links to Ronald Bernard's videos. The door is open just a crack now …

Hope this idea helps!