Hortense is scheming, duplicitous and lecherous, but she is also a victim who is trapped in her own circumstances. Just as Vera and her coworkers are inescapably indebted to Hortense, the madam herself, has tightened her grip in part because she is deeply in debt to a criminal named Lupin who has a variety of very lethal means of collecting debt. If this isn’t bad enough, Hortense has to face off with her despicable brother Pierre for control of the brothel and the girls.
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