Set just after the Great Depression, a young girl recounts the time she accompanied her mother to a dance. A prostitute and one of her girls show up, and the girl's mother urges the girl to get her things so they can leave.

Out of sheer desperation, two sex workers break into a vacant home on Christmas, indulging themselves and falling asleep. When one of them wakes up, she finds her companion dead in the bathroom and must decide how to protect herself.