Set in 1870s London, a young prostitute finds potential power and status after becoming the mistress of a powerful patriarch. The streets of London in the 1870s are anything but a safe place in this adaptation of Michel Faber's international best selling novel which follows the story of Sugar, an unconventional and strong willed young prostitute and William Rackham, the reluctant heir to a perfume business.
This is a story of love, lust, desire and revenge which shows Victorian London in a way never seen before on screen. Exposing a hidden world seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.