Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moves to Newark, goes out with a taxi driver and realizes she wants to have a baby. But Cain finds her and insists on payment, so she returns to Manhattan. The cabby wants to help: can Claire leave prostitution and find happiness in motherhood?