Smuggled in by island traders, millions of illegal foreign workers have flooded building sites in search of a better life. As sunset dapples the straits of Malacca, fishing boats carry across human cargoes. Teak traders smuggling Indonesian workers are persuaded to talk of the dangers: storms, navy patrols. In Kuala Lumpur it's boom time. Silver skyscrapers tower above cement mixers and bulldozers. Stacked up, pre-fab containers provide a home for the workers on the building sites with often 10 to a room, most are illegal. 29 year old Ily describes his sojourn in a detention centre after he was caught. Woken up every two hours, he was beaten up for falling asleep during a roll call. Deputy PM, Anwar Ibrahim, admits, "there have been complaints about the treatment of these workers, so I think these need to be regularised." But when Irene Fernandez investigated the dire conditions in detention centres, she was charged with false reporting by the authorities. Desperate for economic success, Malaysia turns a blind eye to the illegal trade it has come to depend on.