When a beautiful young model is kidnapped by a criminal gang in Berlin she doesn't wait for anyone to come save her; instead, she uses the street smarts she learned from growing up in the inner city to defeat the unsuspecting gang.

SYNOPSIS:

Sometimes it’s the weakest aspects that you think about yourself that turn out to be your greatest strengths.

Majella hated every day she spent growing up in the inner city. Between the abandoned, burnt-out cars and the roving gangs of juveniles that constantly chased her around the place, she looked for a way out. Her older brother, whom she idolized (and took up martial arts training to impress) was killed by a local gang when only a teen. The only treat she looked forward to was the day that she had saved up enough money to buy a pretty dress at the discount department store in town.

It was while trying on a dress she couldn’t afford that she was spotted by a talent scout for a modelling agency. Although the other models look down their noses at her and give her a really hard time, Majella jumps at the opportunity to escape her deplorable situation. Moving into an apartment in a posh part of town to share with another model was so incredible and momentous, it brings her to tears.

Without inner-confidence and while harboring years of pent-up shame, however, she struggles to assert herself in her new life of fashion, photographers and snotty posh girls (like Sorcha, the queen Bee and leader of the mean girls). When Majella’s flatmate Rose secures a modelling side-job in Berlin for the three of them, Sorcha is so mean and petty, she insists that Majella travel separately. Once in Berlin, however, it is Majella who is first to voice her suspicions about the group of male organisers who can’t speak any English. Told off by Sorcha for being “racially insensitive,” Majella counters that she knows scum when she sees it, no matter the culture or country.

When the three girls wake up in an isolated farmhouse in a country they don’t even recognize, Majella is the only one not terribly surprised. As the other two posh girls spend their time in hysterics and fits of crying, it is Majella who calmly observes the activities of the men and the world around her. While Rose and Sorcha lament about their fate and become paralysed into non-action, it is Majella who devises a plan of escape.

Majella’s childhood years of running, fighting and overall street smarts now becomes the only hope that the girls possess to make it back home alive. Only familiar with helpless young women whose primary concern and interest is their vanity, the European gang don’t know what to make of Majella. “They’ve messed with the wrong supermodels,” Majella may have told the girls in jest but it turns out to be more than correct. With a sharp mind and nimble feet, it is Majella that outsmarts her captors and escapes a blood-curdling fate too cruel to contemplate.

She might have been taken against her will but there is no way she is waiting around for someone to come save her. Besides, with her father in jail and a mother lost in a world of her own, she doesn’t have anyone to rely upon… but herself.