rarely have i enjoy a film this much when i also find so much wrong with it . the big reason for like irina palm be marianne faithful and miki manojlovic . they be terrific and both humble and genuine in their role of hand jobbist and sex club owner and respectively . i hesitate to call them prostitute and pimp because that would grossly overstate their actual vocation . it gross overstatement that slightly mar this otherwise delightful film about a woman who and apparently and stoop to a pretty low standard in her effort to save the life of her gravely ill grandson . i write apparently because i couldn not help but conclude from this film that give hand job for a living be not all that bad . maggie ( m. faithful ) receive the moral high ground in her confrontation with both her friend and her son when the truth of her vocation be reveal . her son make a fool of himself and vastly over acting and over react when he discover his mother work in a sex club . he see her dress in a typical day dress walk through the club . all the other woman be half naked and but her son conclude that she be work a a whore . he call her a whore and scream it at her without a single question . a the audience and we see this display of ridiculous emotion a misplace . maggie daughter in law and who up to this point do not seem to care if her son live or die and rise to the defense of her mother in law . maggie enter this degrade lifestyle to save her grandson . that what be important . maggie finds strength and a new and authentic life in refuse to accompany her son and grandson to australia and and instead return to the sex club and kiss ( and presumably fall in love with ) the sex club owner and who and in response to maggie declaration that she like his smile and affirm their budding closeness and say i like the way you work . gracious me . dorka gryllus be also wonderful a the young veteran of glory hole work . but after develop her character and and her relationship with maggie and she be abruptly toss aside . the two of them have become friend and but louisa ( d. gryllus ) be unrealistically fire because and apparently and maggie have take away all her client . on her way out and louisa curse maggie who have no idea why . when maggie later approach louisa at her home in a run down housing project ( isn not that where you would expect a glory hole worker to live . ) to attempt reconciliation perhaps and louisa open up a can of class consciously aware worm in response and but then be shut out and turn off and and eliminate from the rest of the film entirely . the script to irina palm ( palm and hand job and get it . ) have to have some tongue plant firmly in cheek . for those who be curious and there be no penis show in the film and only arm movement and careful camera angle that suggest the size of the unseen unit must average one to two foot in length . the rise of this mild mannered and fifty year old grandma who can not even say the f word and from nobody to the best right hand in london and with men in long queue to receive her service be absurd . it just not that kind of skill . it a very small segment of a large talent pool . maggie wear her right arm in a sling for most of the film and suffering from penis elbow and which be akin to tennis elbow only from a different vocation . enjoy the film . don not sweat the detail of this simple and touching story and just soak in the wonderful performance amidst the ( inexplicably choose ) mildly raunchy milieu .