After an argument with Tommy, her 21-year-old hearing boyfriend, the deaf, Korean, and immaculately beautiful Cathy, also 21, runs away to Miami and a new life as an exotic dancer (stage name: Gloria Kim) in a topless bar, the Starlight Club, on Southwest Eighth Street (Calle Ocho) in that Cuban enclave within Miami known as "Little Havana."
With Tommy on the way, hitchhiking down to Florida to bring her home, is it possible that Cathy, however beautiful, can preserve her precious virginity, so important in her culture, and yet still manage to thrive within the seedy, shameless underworld of early 1970s topless dancing?
Or will she agree to go home with Tommy when, or if, he finds her, when Norrie Parker, the fabulously wealthy owner of the Starlight Club, has other plans for Gloria?