Wanda, a mysterious dominatrix, opens a gallery of S&M erotica. Being cruel is her profession while inventing traps is her specialty. Justine, the innocent American, has to learn that passion is just another illusion...

The underpaid “radical pervert” staff of a seedy hotel rises up in revolt, and by the time head elevator girl Maxine starts spouting union songs – “dump the bosses off your back!” – and Marxist maxims, you’ll be ready to join the cause of Elevator Girls in Bondage.

A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

Two parallel plotlines tell one tale: The first is set in an Amsterdam brothel called the Club Happy House (a double entendre, as things develop), where cynical humor is the only relief from abuse for the professional prostitutes and moonlighting housewives who work there.