Sugar, 19, prostitute in victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate william rackham soon smells like love. Her...Sugar, 19, prostitute in victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate william rackham soon smells like love. Her social rise attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.