Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the setting for this portrait of women living with addiction and street prostitution, built around the photography of Lincoln Clarkes. Clarkes spent years photographing women in the neighborhood, and his portraits, shown throughout the film, work against the usual tabloid framing of the area, presenting his subjects as individuals rather than statistics. Director Stan Feingold intercuts those photographs with the women's own accounts of survival, addiction, and the daily hazards of working the street, letting the images and voices sit together rather than smoothing one into the other. Susan Musgrave's poetry runs through the film as a kind of counter-narration, and John Korsrud's score sets the mood between segments rather than underlining them. The film does not chase a redemption arc or a policy argument; it stays close to Clarkes's project of looking directly at women the city mostly prefers not to see, and lets his camera make the case for their dignity. Made in 2001, it remains a document of one photographer's relationship with a specific, still-troubled few blocks of Vancouver.