PRICELESS ENDS WITH A DOT COM
Slavery continues today in a different from—the sale of young women into prostitution. But where can one find and expose the practice that goes on in the cities of the world? James Stevens (played by Joel Smallbone) does so in Priceless by accident. His wife has died, but he loses custody of his young daughter to his mother, after being imprisoned for a short time for assaulting someone. Upon release, he gets a job delivering “cargo.” One day James nearly falls asleep at the wheel, veers off the highway, and his “cargo” makes sounds. He breaks the lock on the truck and finds that two young Mexicanas, Antonia (Bianca Santos) and María (Amber Midhunder), are his “cargo.” James befriends them but delivers his “cargo” to get paid, evidently an amount over $1,000 in cash, and observes as the Mexicanas are taken away by some shady characters. Looking to stay for a night, he tries to check in at a cheap motel, but the owner Dale (David Koechner), will not allow his truck to park and reveals the existence of a house of prostitution in town. James puts the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together and is determined to liberate the Mexicanas, helped by the motel owner. Directed by Ben Smallbone, Priceless then offers a scenario that defies credibility and ends with an appeal on www.pricelesscube.com to help support for safe houses for those trapped into prostitution, either through slavery or out of economic destitution. MH