in santosh's village, we meet dan bahadur malla. he led the investigative team that found santosh.fficking rings and made the largest number of arrests of kidney traffickers in nepal, in a decade. dan: covid-19 has played a key role in increasing human and kidney trafficking. people have lost livelihoods and have no jobs. but they need money to survive. traffickers see this as an opportunity to mislead people who are in economically hard situations. zeba: we drove to those villages in this district in central nepal, known as kidney valley. in some, traffickers and victims live as neighbors and were angry at our presence. driving off-road, up the hill is the only way in. this tiny village in eastern nepal is nestled on a beautiful hilltop but it has a tragic reality. it is said that almost every man who lives here has only one kidney. as one mother told me, her son was born an equal, but life had other plans. kaali: my older son gave his kidney a few years back. he used to work as a construction worker. now he struggles with life, he's weaker and gets sick easily. zeba: 69-year-old

santosh: they must be punished for this. my body is damaged, i faint, i can't do hard labor.cult to stand for too long. ♪