Agreeably slapdash, Paul Verhoeven's debut also has an unexpected bittersweet quality to its series of sexual theatricals. Blonde Greet (Ronnie Bierman, who's a redhead) and her housemate Nel (Sylvia de Leur) entertain clients with very specific fetishes. This allows the women to feel they're in charge, because they are usually ordering these poor schnooks around or "operating" on them. But Nel also has a violent boyfriend, which finally drives her out of the business and into the arms of a middle-aged street salesman, who promises to take her away from the life of the red-light district. Meanwhile, Greet has her own lover, Piet (Piet Roemer), a married man with no kinky proclivities, which is clearly the attraction for Greet. For a time, she has it both ways -- business is good, Piet is attentive -- but then comes the inevitable complications of his marriage, and Greet reaches out to Nel for emotional support. Verhoeven depicts the freewheeling life of these women and their colleagues with no apologies; fleeing a music recital that Piet has dragged her to, Greet loudly proclaims, "I don't give a damn about behaving properly." Elements of this film certainly presage Verhoeven's most notorious Hollywood outing, Showgirls, as well as his other woman-on-top works, The Fourth Man and Basic Instinct.