Mariana van Zeller

And we looked like those movies about epidemics where the scientists walk in there and they can barely move.

That's what we looked like when we were filming.

So it's me and my team.

My guys are holding their cameras through their masks and we can barely move with these gigantic suits.

And these dudes, two dudes from the Sinaloa cartel that made the chemists for Sinaloa cartel making fentanyl, they had gloves and they had one of those just COVID masks.

And I was like, aren't you scared?

He was like, no, this is actually great because I know the fentanyl is potent.

I know I've got it.

I know I've made it.

He's making it.

I know I've got the end product.

When I start feeling through my skin, because it comes in through the skin, you see the fumes are everywhere.

This is why we're using these sort of respirator masks.

But I know I start getting, my heart starts beating really fast, and that's when I know I've got the good shit.

Yeah, it's essentially what's happening there.

We heard dozens, we talked to dozens of women who told similar stories who were, these are Hmong villages, so it's impoverished communities in the mountains of northern Vietnam and not a lot of job opportunities, not a lot of education.

And a lot of times they would meet people that foreigners or Chinese people or more wealthy Vietnamese people that would come through and they'd start charming them.

It's a lot what happens here actually with pimps.

and then say, hey, do you want to go for dinner with me?

And then the next thing they know, they're being handcuffed and blindfolded and taken across the border to China and sold to men.