Barb Wire, majitelka baru, jezdí na motorce, obratně zachází se zbraněmi a nečeká ji nic menšího, než je záchrana Ameriky. Film se odohráva během druhé americké občanské války. Ta způsobila v zemi anarchii a moc je v rukách zločinců. Ztratila všechny iluze, i člověka, ktorého milovala. Nyní se jako majitelka najznámejšího baru v městě potkává s vysoce postavenými ludmi, chce sa naplno věnovat své práci a zůstat mimo chaosu. Osud ale rozhodne jinak a ona se znovu zaplete do války gangů...

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme. They plan to mug the lecherous men who give a ride to ladies waiting at street sides for a pickup, which was- and is, to some extent, now- how some prostitutes found work back in the time in Iran. The film portrays the characters as well as the social origins of these men, and as it progresses, explores the backgrounds of these women.

Ana is a telenovela actress but because of financial troubles resorts to producing a prostitution documentary under false pretences.