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The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself. In Pakistan, the British home minister tours the poppy-eradication project and returns to London to find that his daughter is a heroin addict. While trying to save her, and helped by a crusading attorney, he learns the limits of government policy. Fazal, a peasant burned off his land where he farmed poppies, goes to Karachi and works for Tarik Butt, a murderous drug lord. Fazal's frankness and sense of worth are his strength and his liability. Stories cross and collide.

Country: United Kingdom

Type: scripted

Status: Ended

Language: English, UrduGerman |  See more »

Release Date: June 22, 1989

Also Known As: Traffik, le sang du pavot, A heroin útjaТраффик, トラフィック, Traffik |  See more »

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Production Co: Carnival Film & Television, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Picture Partnership

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

1989 | 6 Episodes

Awards

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Emmy 1989

Nominee

Winner

Emmy

Drama

BAFTA Television Craft Award 1990

Nominee

BAFTA Television Craft Award

Editing - Fiction

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