Marca is an 18 year old girl from a modest family, fatherless and whose mother Rosanna tends a bar. Everbody loves Marca including her teacher Manuel because she's beautiful and has a sweet face, which earned her the nickname "Bambola". When she's not hanging out with friends, she's at home with her mother and drunk step-father Francesco, a criminal into robberies and kidnappings who sees her as a tool to make money. Marca becomes a victim of him one day and wakes up in a brothel where Marilda, the 40 year old madam of the house, tells her she'll remain in peace if she works hard.