A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.

Burrowed into a makeshift room under the stairs lives Silvana, an Eastern European prostitute, and 5 other trafficked and brutalized women. Trapped by the punishing threats of their pimp, the women sit among pastel lace and stale cigarettes, luring visitors into the unforgiving world of sex for sale, with all its harrowing details.

A small group of eccentric pioneers join forces, in order to do the impossible and create world history in the early 1980s of Denmark