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Life in an elegant early-20th-century Parisian brothel. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings; they are in debt. They face problems of pregnancy, opium, age, and violent clients. One reads sociology at her peril. Occasionally, a client talks of marriage. There are also friendships and affection among the women. The madam is in a dispute with her landlord and calls on influential clients to help. Theres a picnic one summer day, a wake, and an evening in masks. Have they expectations? A street scene in contemporary Paris is the coda to this experience.
At the dawn of the 20th century, at Madame Marie-Frances elegant Parisian bordello, the Apollonide, exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries, and most of all, slavery. Forever in debt and confined within the brothels walls, the seemingly-pampered courtesans can only dream of a better life and client who will set them free by accepting to pay off their heavy debts. The girls of the Apollonide have signed up of their own free will; however, as desperation and danger go hand in hand in this house of tolerance, none can say theres pleasure in this profession--not even Marie-France.
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Marie-France
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Julie
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A prostitute
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Maurice
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
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