After escaping trafficking, Antoinette Vigneau finds herself in a difficult situation: she is penniless in a strange land, where she has no friends, no connection and no where to go. Going back home would not be an option anyway, for er family won’t accept her anyway. She doesn’t want to go back to the brothel, for that life was never for her, and the madam takes a huge amount of her earnings anyway. All she can do, is try to survive in the East End, where she is hiding in overcrowded rooms, in the hopes that the thugs that are looking for her will not find her and lead her back to her latest prison. Entirely destitute, Antoinette has but one resource at her disposal: her determination not only to survive, but to thrive.