He gave her a Pepsi and they boarded a bus. That was the last thing she remembered. She was trying to find medicine for her baby. The young man said he could help. When she woke up, she discovered that she had been sold on the black market to a brothel in India.

One-half of the world's sex trafficking takes place in Asia, but the problem spans every continent. Each year, over 50,000 young girls are dragged into the United States to work as sex slaves. They arrive without passports, identification, or money. Some are tricked into forced prostitution after agreeing to enter the country and work in a restaurant only to wind up in coastal border towns and large cities, like Miami and San Francisco. Now the sex slave industry rakes in more cash than drug trafficking. More than a million girls across the globe are forced into prostitution every year. A new feature-length documentary by David Levine, The Day My God Died, takes a hard look at the child sex-slave trade between Nepal and neighboring India.

The documentary describes how girls were tricked, drugged and sold on the black market before they realized what had happened. Two sisters who couldn't face the nightmare of prostitution and killed themselves less than 24 hours after their kidnapping. Prostitution has become a booming business for the brothels. During the “break in” period, girls are locked in a room, raped, beaten and barely fed. They are forced to have sex with as many as 35 men per day, for as little as 60 – 100 rupees (US$1 - $2 per client), depending on their age and beauty. The girls never know how much they make per client. It can take ten years for them to buy freedom — if they don't first succumb to AIDS, other STDs, complications from repeated abortions, malnourishment or malaria.

The film revolves around five young girls who escaped and became activists. Real footage of brothels in Bombay’s notorious red-light district, nicknamed "the Cages," reveals a fast-growing black market where children are raped for profit, and human rights are ignored. Anita, a softspoken fourteen-year-old, says she was impregnated and then forced to have an abortion. Three hours later and still bleeding, she was ordered to have sex with a customer. Sixteen-year-old Gina was sold as a child, almost a decade ago. Her hip is still damaged from the beatings she suffered. Both girls were saved by Maiti Nepal, an organization working to rescue sex slaves from the Cages. Many girls contract HIV/AIDS, infect others, and die before they reach adulthood. The mission provides a home for the abused girls, since their families and villages often shun them for having worked as a prostitute. Maiti Nepal brings them to peaceful hospices where they can "die with dignity."

The practice of selling a female child is so easily accepted that entire villages have been depopulated of women. Since prostitution is legal for women over eighteen, the mission combs brothels for children under that age. Once identified, the mission presses local police officers until they dispatch a raid. At first, they could only instigate raids once every quarter. Now the police conduct raids twice a month.

Levine, equipped with a spy camera small enough to fit in his glasses, felt he was risking his life during the making of the film. He raised $20,000 from family and friends, and won financial support from various groups, including the grassroots human rights organization, Witness, and the Gates foundation.  Rock legend Peter Gabriel provided technical camera equipment. Winona Ryder, who serves as the voice of the children, co-produced the film, and Tim Robbins narrates.