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Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden, they are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she’s looking for a job. But as soon as she gets there, her hopes and dreams are met with a cold awakening. With no place to stay and nothing to her name, she hires on to work as a saleswoman at a newly-established, glamorous department store. But the founders are also fighting for survival, just like Vicky. Times are tough, and it’s about to get tougher.

Berlin’s roaring twenties shimmer with neon lights and jazz, masking a jagged underworld of desperate poverty and sudden violence. A newcomer’s pursuit of a golden life quickly dissolves into a brutal struggle for survival amidst the city's predatory shadows.

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