Angie (Kierston Wareing), a young woman frustrated after being fired from her thirtieth dead-end job, decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend and flatmate Rose (Juliet Ellis).
Angie is able to build a successful business, while also dealing with a neglected son who gets in trouble at school and parents who disapprove of her venture.
She also has to keep reassuring Rose that they will become legitimate once the business is on a firm financial footing - they do not have a licence, but Angie at least insists on only hiring workers with papers, not illegal immigrants.
In the final scene, Angie abandons her scruples completely; she travels to Ukraine to knowingly recruit illegal workers, offering to obtain forged papers for them.
[2] Peter Howell wrote in the Toronto Star, "Newcomer Wareing delivers an award-worthy performance as the steely Angie, who is impossible to hate even as she descends deeper into the moral abyss.