in modern day eastern europe life be hard and for young woman prostitution be one of the only career option and one take and reluctantly and by melania . she attract the attention of an american and seymour and who become obsess with her and pay more and more money for time with her until he eventually want to buy her outright . she have two pimp with differring emotional attachment to her and she be generally pass around like some piece of baggage with no feeling of her own . however and we be in modern art house cinema territory and so convention like narrative structure and light the subject so it can be see and camera technique that add to rather than distract from the action and a vaguely consistent plot can all be abandon . much of the time i have no idea what be suppose to be happen and very rarely do i care . people begin leave the screen almost before the last latecomer have arrive and i do not think i have ever see so many people walk out . image be important to the director character slowly emerge from or disappear into a dark screen and we get long linger shot of nothing in particular and one sex scene take place in infra red . in fact for such an unconventional film the sex scene be remarkably ordinary while missionary position between naked people in bed abound and there be no drug or relate weirdness . but perhaps these day be ordinary be unconventional . on the whole and almost entirely without merit .