The film, titled "Sound of Freedom," follows the story of Tim Ballard, the founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR Rescue), played by actor Jim Caviezel.
The movie depicts Ballard's decision to quit his job with the Department of Homeland Security while on a mission to rescue missing children in Honduras and start organizing his own independent team of child rescuers.
The film opens with a fictional story based on real-life events about a lower-middle-class father living in Honduras who is approached by a woman claiming to be a talent recruiter.
The recruiter convinces the father to let his young daughter attend singing tryouts to qualify for a young celebrity program. When the father brings his children to the tryouts, the recruiter tells him to come back at 7 p.m.
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He leaves and returns only to find a dark, empty room where he left his children.
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This is a difficult movie to watch and meant to make viewers feel discomfort toward the grotesque reality of the abusive, $150 billion global criminal enterprise that is child trafficking.
According to OUR Rescue President and COO Matt Osborne, a former CIA agent, the film is based on a real-life operation called "Triple Take."
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In October of 2014, in three cities in Colombia, in a one-hour time period, OUR Rescue helped Colombian authorities and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescue 123 trafficking victims, 55 of whom were minors.
The film highlights a 5,000% increase in the distribution of child sexual abuse materials, or child pornography, over the last year as part of the reason behind an increasing demand for children for sale, often by American tourists visiting other countries.
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Human trafficking is the "fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world" and has eclipsed the illegal arms trade, and will soon reach the drug trade, Osborne said. "It's Americans, American tourists, who oftentimes are going to these countries to exploit children." "Sound of Freedom" is a real-life, action-hero movie meant to raise awareness about human trafficking and how victims get roped into complex criminal organizations.
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OUR Rescue, which is made up of many former government employees, gets approval from international governments to get directly involved in child-trafficking operations to save young victims overseas and get them the help they need after traumatizing experiences.
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The nonprofit has been involved in more than 4,000 operations and 6,500 arrests since its founding. There is also an emphasis on Homeland Security Investigations' role in combating human trafficking rings in the film.
While patriotic at its core, the movie's inclusion of big-name actors from various Latin American countries aims to help spread awareness about the crime on a global scale. The nonprofit also helps U.S.-based law enforcement offices that request assistance in taking down domestic trafficking rings.
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What separates OUR Rescue from other nonprofits fighting human trafficking is its rescue process as a "one-stop shop," Osborne said. "OUR, I would argue, is maybe a first of its kind in that it kind of does everything.
We're on the front-end of prevention education, going into schools to talk about the dangers of trafficking," he said. "Then, we provide training. … We go into other countries and teach them how to go undercover.
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Then, we ourselves go into the dark places to help extract these children in concert, always, with government. Then, we're on the aftercare side. We're also working … on the prosecution side."
According to 2021 statistics from the International Labour Organization, at any given time, there are more than 27 million people in forced labor, 6.3 million of which are forced into commercial sexual exploitation.
The top three types of trafficking reported in 2021 were escort services (10%), pornography (8%), and illicit massage, health, and beauty services, according to Polaris, a group that works to end human trafficking.
Most trafficking victims in the US are recruited by someone they know, and the internet is the top recruitment location, Polaris provided in an analysis of 2021 data from the hotline.
If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking in the United States, you can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.
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