On the Road: living and working on the Italian ‘road of love’

Hundreds of women operate as sex workers along the Strada Bonifica, the ironically named ‘road of love’ on the Adriatic coast of Italy. There has been a huge increase in the number of Nigerian women working along the 10-mile stretch of road – some of whom have been trafficked into the country and forced into prostitution. The film moves between the women’s stories, the Italians who live and work there and the local NGO attempting to support the women

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Key credits
Director and producer: Piers Sanderson
Editors: Caterina Monzani and Noah Payne-Frank
Online editor: Ken Macfarlane
Sound desigm: Dennis Wheatley
Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
Commissioned by the Guardian

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