Raised without affection in the post war tenements and care homes of North London, Dulcie had to come to terms with the complexities of bi-sexuality and masochism as well as a sexual drive incompatible with acceptability. With two competing boyfriends that trod the wrong side of the law, one blatantly the other more surreptitiously, and a French emigre she walked a difficult path through the moralistic society of the day. On the one side she had Eddy a petty criminal dreaming of the big time and on the other Ray, a wheeling dealing pimp with a love for money, sex and lies and little else, and in the middle she had Lil a hardnosed landlady hell bent on controlling her life. Slowly Dulcie comes to accept what she is and with a few setbacks sorts out the life she wants avoiding the beckoning finger of vice. Along that path two very good friends aid and abet her, Frenchie the beautiful blonde war refugee and Carol a thirty year old café proprietor and pay for tart. Amidst a heavy mix of spanking and heterosexual/lesbian sex/bondage the group take on a London mobster who Ray has a long held grudge against. When a lorry load of confiscated cigarettes go missing the criminals gather each pointing a finger. Long Arm Coulson a hardnosed detective is put on the case further exacerbating nerves each wanting to know who done it.