Stella and her mother Antoinette are women without money or power in a man’s world. Youthful Stella’s employers are men who need women to be “serious” about “looking good” because attractive and sexy women are profitable and necessary as go-go girls in a nightclub or as starlets in erotic films. Women without the good looks that sell in the entertainment world work “off stage” as hotel maids and in other service occupations where reliability and trustworthiness carry more weight than physical beauty. Women in this film are lonely and so are the men who abuse them morally or physically. Deep down, they may be all looking for the same love and intimacy but, locked into a world of shallow entertainment and consumerism with a tendency to generate shallow lives, their happiness is illusory at best. In this sense, the film works well as a social critique with the last scene driving the message home. It is, ultimately, a didactic film full of deliberate irony. Every character of any consequence in this film seems to make bad choices, the lack of conscience and self-reflection is alarming and the life altering or empowering choices are either amoral or immoral. The subtle and brutal ways in which this film directs the viewer’s attention to the two sides of a luxury resort where the veneer wears thin, collapsing boundaries, elevate this film as art rather than mere diversion.