Despite language barriers, cultural differences, and thousands of miles, American men are outsourcing their happily-ever-afters. Marriages brokered by online international marriage agencies are skyrocketing. In the U.S. alone, 16,000 marriages each year occur between international couples who met on online marriage websites. It’s a controversial industry in which American men often pay large sums of money in the hope of finding an ideal wife, and mail order brides marry foreigners they barely know with the hope of finding a better life in the states. And business is booming: thousands of women ranging in age from 19 to 69 have signed up with international marriage brokers. But the industry’s opponents say email order relationships are dangerous to the brides and leave them open to degradation, abuse, and in some brutal and notorious cases, death. In this behind-the-scenes look into a growing and controversial industry, follow the real stories of men and women willing to go the extra thousands of miles to look for love.