These pictures were filmed on St Valentine's Day. It is 10 pm Fuentes de Onoro, the Spanish village looks deserted, there's no-one on the streets or even an open cafe to have a drink and warm up. But behind this stillness there's a flourishing trade worth millions of pesetas every year Although we are in Spain the evening in Fuentes de Onoro is very Portuguese.
The prostitutes are Portuguese, the club owners are Portuguese and the customers are also Portuguese. It takes no longer than an hour and a half to drive from Portugal.
Rep : I was there for three months. Well, it wasn't exactly in Burgos, it was eighty kilometres from Burgos. They chat - but with a single objective. To invite you to have sex with them in exchange for five thousand pesetas. Apparently, this woman is here of her own accord But in truth, many of the women in this bar are forced to be here and to sell themselves as prostitutes.
Prost : I cried, I was scared and they would put me against a They burnt my arms several times. She was already a runaway. One evening, a friend offered her work in a restaurant. Waiting for her was a Portuguese pimp, who owned a whore bar. Stories like this are repeated all over the country. It's common knowledge that people are skilled in the art of seducing and misleading young women who want to work in Spain.
Some of them already prostitutes. All are promised heaven and earth. When they get here they can be sold on from bar to bar, as this pimp explains. Pimp : fifty per cent are deceived, with promises of a good salary, of a good life because over there wages are three times higher than here. Jobs aren't easy to find, and they go.
