Paid

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux a 28yearold Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man Michel Angelo 30 whose hearts are touched when a sixyearold Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives The boy changes their fate He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together But at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron Rudi Dancer 55 The enticing offer Paula could not refuse turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel Eventually Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price