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Cross Currents explores the traffic in human beings, specifically the sex trade, sweeping Europe and exploiting, amongst other victims, refugees from former Yugoslavia. These refugees, lured by false advertisements and enticements, find themselves forced to work as prostitutes in the hotels and streets of Berlin and other European cities. The work explores these issues through an interactive narrative dealing with the relationship between a young Croatian mail-order bride and her Serbian body guard. This narrative reconstructs the events leading up to a police raid on a sex slave hotel in central Berlin during which the woman escapes and her body guard and would be lover are killed. This reconstruction is enacted by means of each viewer’s individual trajectory across the space which triggers a series of cascading points of view including that of the man, the woman, their cities of origin and respective journeys to the imaginary refuge of Berlin.