How Long Is “I Am Slave”?

From the director of Death of a President and the writer of The Last King of Scotland , and inspired by real-life events, I Am Slave is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery. Starring incredible international talent Wunmi Mosaku, it's a powerful story of imprisonment, cruelty and despair, but also one of hope and humanity. The story begins when 12-year-old Malia, from the Nuba Mountains, is snatched from the arms of her father during a Muharaleen raid on their village. Sold into slavery, she spends the next six years of her life working for a Sudanese family. Then, aged 18, she is sent to London where the brutality and inhumanity that she experiences continues, only under a different roof. Hidden in plain sight, Malia's desperate situation goes unnoticed or uncared for by everyone she comes into contact with. Stripped of her passport and living in terror of what might happen to her family in the Sudan should she speak out, Malia is trapped in a ruthless, alien environment. Despairing of the life to which she has been condemned, Malia calls on all her strength to make a dramatic escape back to Sudan to the father who never gave up hope that she was alive and who never stopped searching for her. I Am Slave is part of a series of programmes highlighting slavery and trafficking, including three-part documentary series The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers and Dispatches Britain's Secret Slaves , which begins tomorrow.