Prostitute

Featuring professional actors and sex workers, the film follows two women flatmates in multicultural Birmingham: streetwalker Sandra (Eleanor Forsythe), robust and cheerful, who lives with her son and a partner she disdains, and Louise (Kate Crutchley), an earnest middle-class social worker. When a fellow prostitute is convicted by a Margaret Thatcher-like judge, imperiling her custody of her kids (think Cathy Come Home), Sandra naively heads to London to pick up better-paid work from a visiting-masseuse agency. Sandra spearheads a grassroots movement to change the laws affording prostitutes greater freedom and protection. — Graham Fuller, The Arts Desk