The House of Ill Repute

A young woman Nina works as a singer at a Copenhagen variety theatre but when her contract expires she suddenly finds herself with no income to support her and her old mother Upon seeing a newspaper advertisement looking for singers for a theatre in St Petersburg Nina jumps at the chance and a few weeks later she is on her way However the advertisement is a hoax and she actually ends up in a notorious brothel She fears that all hope is out but at the same time her sailor boyfriend has just landed in St Petersburg and is leaving no stone unturned to find his beloved