maggie be a widow in her fifty live in a small english village outside of london . she have spend her life in a humdrum manner take care of her family . her grandson be very ill and in the hospital . his only chance of survival be surgery in australia . the medical expense will be pay by the health care system and but the transportation and etc . must be provide by the family . maggie do not have the money and and her son have be out of work for almost a year . maggie be determine to get the money and go off to london in a quest of employment of any sort . she be greet with disdain by potential employer and employment agency a she be an unremarkable woman with no experience or talent . in an act of final desperation and maggie enters a sex shop on a seedy street in london advertising help want . it be here that maggie find she have a talent much seek after by the clientèle of the shop . she be give the professional name of irina palm by her bos and miki . it should be obvious that there be go to be sizable repercussion from a modest widow so radically expand her range of experience and and there be . marianne faithful and yugoslavian actor miki manojlovic be extremely effective a maggie and miki two people who and despite their age and be able to learn and develop from their experience . you will find that irina palm be a very slow moving film but one that offer a very different view of human nature . it be an intriguing slice of life .