Emmanuelle dreams of being a movie star. In reality, she works as a stripper in a sleazy nightclub where she is forced by her manager and boyfriend Frank to sleep with the wealthy clients. When she catches him inflagranti with a colleague, she finally summons up the courage to run away in the hope of making her dream come true. At the Cannes film festival, she meets a movie producer. Though he's more interested in her body than her acting skills, he gives her a leading role in a cheap porn movie, which is a box-office flop. Left alone and unable to pay her bills she prostitutes herself until Frank finally arrives and pulls her out of her despair.