Documentarists David Redmon and Ashley Sabin let their footage speak for itself in this harrowing exposé of the Japanese modelling market. Such is the national obsession with lithe youth that hundreds of impoverished Siberian girls place themselves in the hands of unscrupulous agents in the hope of making it big in Tokyo. Thirteen-year-old Nadya Vall is desperate to succeed and endures a humiliating cattle call and a punishing dietary regime to land a contract with Tigran, a shady Russian who employs American ex-child model Ashley Arbaugh as his go-between with an equally dubious Japanese counterpart known as Messiah. Dismissing the distressed video-diary entries she made in the 1990s, Arbaugh justifies the industry and her role in it, even though it's clear from Vall's miserable experience that girls are being exploited, deceived and discarded without a thought for their physical or psychological welfare. The result is intrepidly filmed, unflinchingly revelatory and deeply disconcerting.