Zola: How a road trip became a viral story of sex trafficking

It's a viral Twitter thread written by a teenager that simply became known to its thousands of fans as #TheStory.

Co-written and directed by film-maker Janicza Bravo and starring Ma Rainey's Black Bottom actress Taylour Paige, American Honey's Riley Keough and Succession star Nicholas Braun, the film is punctuated by the narration of Zola's tweets, as her version of her epic saga is related. What is supposed to be a lucrative weekend where the two women earn money by dancing in clubs ends with Zola being caught up in a dangerous world of sex trafficking.

"I'm not on Twitter, and I see that as a good decision on my part," she explains, "but I am on group chats, and I remember back in October 2015 looking at my phone and there were suddenly 100+ messages."When I looked at my phone and saw what they were talking about, I realised that what happened on Twitter had been electric. It was a theatre experience of sorts - Zola was on a stage telling a story, the audience was interacting, and she was invigorated by that response.

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