A covert Special Forces unit and an international team of undercover investigators join forces to hunt down a notorious sex trafficking ring. The team’s mission is to save thousands of women forced to be sex slaves and their target is a Thai-Uzbek sex ring - a ring that will kill to survive. This criminal enterprise earns millions of dollars a year trafficking women from Central Asia into Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand. Steve Galster, a man who has risked his life for two decades fighting the most dangerous wildlife traffickers in the world, now uses those same hard earned skills to combat human trafficking in Thailand. Sex tourism may be one of Thailand’s most profitable industries, but for "Operation Graceland" and the Thai government, this mission is do or die. Success will depend on whether or not the two are able to work together to bust the ring in order to supply the evidence necessary to win a case against the Thai and Uzbek traffickers.
21St Century Sex Slaves was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 22 August 2020, 14:00. This episode was initially placed on Thursday 7 February 2019.