Having grown up in small-town Slovenia, Alexandra embraces the anonymity of city life when she moves to the capital and begins work as a sex worker. Her isolated existence—English studies by day, sex worker by night—is shattered when a client dies of a heart attack during one of their rendezvous.

Formed around a stellar performance by Nina Ivanišin, A Call Girl is at once a committed character piece and a relevant political film regarding the world’s oldest profession. Set in a Europe of ennui and discontent, this is a tragic yet stalwart portrait of a young woman fighting to survive.