“25
words or less” – An inside look at the personal and professional lives of a
cutthroat madam and her four equally ruthless working girls at a Manhattan
brothel.
Full
Summary:
Patti
Michaels is a non-nonsense, tough as nails madam who runs a very successful
brothel from a non-descript four-bedroom apartment in a five-story walk-up on
Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Catering to
gentlemen from all walks of life, her accessible service offers them four
distinct flavors to fulfill their every fantasy.
There’s
Becky Martin, a beautiful, tall, skinny model-looking redhead; Cindy Strong a
girl next door-type brunette with a trashy edge to her; Natasha Williams, a
tall, slender, mischievous African-American and Anastasia Chang, an innocent,
petite, short Asian girl who moved to America at an early age. All four are in their mid-twenties and drop
dead gorgeous, all of them will also do whatever it takes to separate their clients
from their money.
In
this first episode, Becky and Patti manage to emasculate a married Wall Street
bigwig client while simultaneously getting him to spend much more than he
planned. Becky also has to deal with the
complicated relationship at home with her boyfriend who’s feeling increasingly threatened
by her professional obligations.
Meanwhile,
Patti is forced to flex her muscles, literally, when one of Anastasia’s clients
gets a little to touchy feely and tries to force her to do things she doesn’t
want to do. This leads Patti to barge
into the room amidst calls for help and literally drag the client out of the
apartment by his balls. In one action
Patti puts men on notice, you don’t fuck with her or her girls.
While
this is going on, Cindy is in her bedroom seducing a client out of his life
savings. The ultimate charmer who can
make a man do anything, she professes her love to him and convinces him to be
her boyfriend. But of course this isn’t
real love, not in a brothel; her ulterior motive is to ensure a steady income
by developing a long-term relationship that pays her.
As
for Natasha, since she lacks a steady client list, Patti forces her to go on
the prowl throughout the Upper East Side neighborhood looking for
customers. While out, she stumbles upon
the perfect mark at Starbucks, an unemployed waiter who’s busy working on his
resume. Since Natasha will do anything
for an extra buck, she ends up stealing the man’s ATM card while he’s in the
bathroom back at the apartment and immediately goes on a shopping spree at
Bloomingdale’s after he leaves.
Later
that day, after a chance encounter, Patti ends up creating an alliance with a
slick, middle-aged Italian-American named Ralphie who runs an illegal poker
parlor in an apartment also on the Upper East Side. The deal – Patti will provide girls to the
men at the poker games while giving Ralphie a piece of the action. Although Ralphie immediately starts hitting
on her and tries his best to consummate their relationship, Patti fends him off
by stating that their partnership is strictly business and that’s all. Only time will tell if that’s really true.
And
at the end of yet another long night, Natasha leaves the apartment to go home and
realizes she’s being followed by the client that she ripped off earlier in the
day. At first she claims ignorance and refuses
to even acknowledge she has ever met him, but he does manage to get her to eventually
admit it. However, Natasha steadfastly
denies stealing his ATM card but the man is persistent and refuses to let her
go until he pays her back. What happens
next is sure to have long-lasting ramifications for the man, Natasha and Patti’s
business.
