Hope Lost

Hope Lost is an Italian English-language sex trafficking thriller directed by David Petrucci. The film stars Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin. The film chronicles the struggles of a young Romanian woman trafficked to Italy. Filming took place in Rome in 2014 and the film premiered at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival on 20 February 2015.

Plot summary
A young Romanian woman from a small town meets a man claiming to be a film director and he convinces her to come to Rome for auditions. This is a ruse and she is instead lured into a life of prostitution in Italy and then sold by her pimp to a man who intends to torture her and another young woman in a snuff movie.

Cast

 * Danny Trejo as Marius
 * Mischa Barton as Alina
 * Michael Madsen as Manol
 * Daniel Baldwin as Ettore
 * Francesca Agostini as Sofia
 * Andrey Chernyshov as Gabriel