Tina lives in North London. Her father left home seven years ago and Tina has only vague remembrances of him. Her mother is fully occupied with the bare of a man she has brought into the house, Graham, a strong arm man for a London gang. Tina hates him, the more so because she finds his behaviour to her and to her mother unbearable. He is free with his hand, a slap here and even worse, a caress. As Graham's attentions increase Tina starts to panic. She like many of her acquaintances, decides to run from this unsatisfactory house which is no longer a home. She runs to Paris, and finds work and an older man who teaches her much. Suddenly she finds herself with no job, no boy friend and nowhere to live. She is rescued by someone she has read about in magazines and just as life starts to have a new meaning for her, there is fresh danger.