| Hope Lost | |
| Director: | David Petrucci |
| Producer: | Andrea Iervolin Cosetta Turco Monika Bacardi Danielle Maloni |
| Narrator: | Danny Trejo |
| Starring: | Danny Trejo Mischa Barton Michael Madsen Daniel Baldwin |
| Cinematography: | Davide Manca |
| Editing: | David Petrucci |
| Runtime: | 94 mins |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | English |
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[1] and the film premiered at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival on 20 February 2015.
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.[2] [3]