The streets of London in the 1870s are anything but a safe place in this adaptation of Michel Faber's international best selling novel which follows the story of Sugar - an unconventional and strong willed young prostitute and William Rackham, the reluctant heir to a perfume business. This is a story of love, lust, desire and revenge which shows Victorian London in a way never seen before on screen. Exposing a hidden world seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.