Locked Up Abroad

Texan Carlos Quijas is a happy family man whose girlfriend, Anna, is expecting their first child. In Mexico his life is changed forever when he’s falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling. Inside Mexico’s most dangerous prison, he must transform from a law-abiding citizen into a prison gangster. Drawn further into the world of the criminal cartels, will his kind, loving side be crushed?

Michael Singh loses his job in recruitment and gets a divorce. He falls deep into depression until Andre, an old acquaintance, offers him a job smuggling cocaine. Michael builds a solid friendship with Andre and regains a sense of purpose in his life. But when Michael takes on a bigger job as a favor to Andre, he is caught smuggling cocaine and sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican prison.

Texan cousins Paris and Marlon always fancied themselves as entrepreneurs. When Paris’ dad offers them the opportunity to run a car wash in Lima, Peru, they jump at the chance. But Peru has a dark side and the boys have no idea their ambitions to make money are leading them into grave personal danger. Ahead of them lies incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate family betrayal.

Keith Stansell flies over the Colombian jungle on a U.S. government mission to locate hidden drug labs. Suddenly, the plane’s engine shuts down and his team is forced to crash-land. Keith and his crew are quickly surrounded by heavily armed FARC guerrillas — two team members are executed and Keith is taken hostage. For the next five and a half years, he endures forced isolation and torture.

Nineteen-year-old LaTasha Madson, a dancer from Los Angeles, gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to dance in a club in Thailand. While there, she falls in love with a man named Phillip, but the relationship turns into her worst nightmare. Caught with a stash of Phillip’s heroin, she is sent to Thailand’s notorious “Bangkok Hilton” prison.

Champion skier Nick Brewer flees home and begins selling pills in the south of France. As he works his way up the ranks of a Mediterranean underworld, he’s posted to Argentina for the job of his life. When it goes awry, he and his partner hatch a plan to smuggle 330 kilos of cocaine to Europe. Not long after they become kingpins of a cocaine empire, it comes crumbling down around them.

In 1969, 22-year-old college dropout David Kunkel risks everything to embark on what he thinks will be the adventure of a lifetime: smuggling hash on an epic road trip from Afghanistan through Europe. When he gets caught in Greece, he is imprisoned in an island fortress under a brutal dictatorship. When David cannot bear life inside any longer, he makes a daring attempt to escape.

Australian hippie Mark O’Brien is dissatisfied with life. He joins an ashram in India, led by the infamous guru Osho, looking for enlightenment. But when a fellow disciple encourages Mark to join her in a plan to smuggle an exotic form of hash to Amsterdam, it sets off a chain of events that leads him to a very different commune: the notorious Yawanda Central Prison.

Canadian 21-year-old Christina Jocko loves spending money, partying and taking drugs. But when she discovers opiates her life spirals into addiction. Out of work, out of money and out of luck, an offer of an easy $10,000 for running cocaine from Panama looks like a way out. Little does she realize the tempting adventure will cost her five years of her life.

Jimmy, a postman from Watford, England, hates his job. Out of nowhere he is offered a chance to fulfill his dream of running a bar in Thailand. The bar is a hit, but Jimmy quickly starts dealing meth, scaling his operation to sell 200 grams on a regular basis. In a takedown, Jimmy is busted and sent straight to prison. Jimmy serves four years and one month in prison, and is released in 2014.