A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother’s death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. The steps that she takes to free herself from her pimp and find a father for the baby are the central story of this movie.

Framed with an elegant minimalism common of European cinema, New York is transformed into a transactional non-place in Lodge Kerrigan’s film of metropolitan alienation. Known for more garrulous roles with Mike Leigh, the late, great Katrin Cartridge is taciturn and glacial in this modernist drama.