However, Val soon realizes that Jaime is bipolar and he constantly flips between kind affection and cruel abuse.

Unemployed and having lost all her savings to pay for Jaime's extravagant lifestyle, a depressed Val contemplates suicide by jumping from her apartment window, but eventually decides against it.

Val starts to enjoy her work and soon attracts regular customers, including an Italian named Giovanni, with whom she falls in love.

Pedro, another customer, keeps on telling her that he loves her and wants to marry her, but he tries to control her with his money and wants to have overly aggressive sex with her.

Jay Seaver of eFilmCritic.com wrote: "...while I still think it hangs around those [art-porn] stereotypes enough to be somewhat hurt by them, I did find the film improving in my mind as I reflected on it".

[5] Nathan Southern wrote for TV Guide: "Though competently acted, well scored, and lushly photographed...Christian Molina’s...erotic drama...represents an ugly and pretentious blight on the face of its chosen subgenre".

[6][7] Jonathan Henderson of Cinelogue stated: "[T]he film...in its heavy-handed crudeness...plays out like a typical, manipulative melodrama.

[It] is marked by an overtly formulaic script, which too neatly follows the three-act structure with a pattern of introduction, elation, conflict, descent and recovery.

The film’s pacing problems are exacerbated by a profusion of abbreviated, deficient scenes which interrupt the flow of the narrative.

[Belén] Fabra’s performance during [her] emotional scenes is nearly strong enough to make me forget about the manipulative mawkishness behind them".