ESCORT GIRLS

Set in London, the film tells six stories of people seeking companionship in the run-up to Christmas.

Hugh and Susan: Hugh, a young office clerk, spends his Christmas bonus on a night out with Susan, a social escort. After dinner at an Italian restaurant, they take a taxi back to Susan's flat, where both admit their loneliness. Susan takes Hugh's virginity.

Mary and Barry: Mary is a wealthy widow whose outward pride conceals her inner loneliness. She takes a young male escort, Barry, to a nightclub and then back to her hotel room. Barry is put off by Mary's overbearing nature and slips away while her back is turned, leaving her heartbroken.

Emma and Wayne: Emma is a company director weary of the business world. As an amusement, she hires a male escort, Wayne, to accompany her to a high-level Christmas party. Returning to Emma's house, Emma and Wayne have sex.

Harvey and Sheila: Harvey Matelow is a corrupt businessman who books an escort, Sheila, to take with him to a casino. Later, he tricks his way into her flat and rapes her. He is interrupted by Sheila's boyfriend, who photographs him in the act and proceeds to blackmail him, stealing his money and threatening to publish the photographs if he goes to the police. Realising that he has been set up, the humiliated Harvey is kicked out of the flat. Left alone, Sheila and the boyfriend have sex.

Vicky and Lester: To impress her old school friends, Vicky shows up at a reunion accompanied by Lester, a black male escort who has agreed to pose as her fiancé. Over the course of the party, Vicky's female friends fantasise about Lester and discreetly pass him their telephone numbers. Back at Vicky's flat, Lester hesitantly indulges Vicky's interracial rape fantasy.

James and Ian are Scotsmen visiting London for the first time. They pick up two women and take them to dinner at a restaurant, where they are shocked to see an exotic dancer give an explicit solo sex show. After leaving the restaurant, they pursue the two women for sex. The women knock them to the ground and they drunkenly pass out.

In the film's epilogue, the normally shy and reserved Hugh arrives at work and greets his female colleagues by cheerfully slapping one of them on the rear with his morning newspaper.

In the film's epilogue, the once-shy Hugh arrives at work and surprises his female colleagues by greeting one of them with a cheerful slap on the rear using his morning newspaper.

This ending suggests a transformation in Hugh's character—from withdrawn and lonely to more confident, albeit in a manner reflecting the film's dated attitudes towards gender and sexuality. The culmination ties together the film's exploration of fleeting intimacy and the ways such encounters can embolden or alter personal behavior, for better or worse, within the social fabric of 1970s London.