Examines the plight of battered wives. In particular, looks at the experiences of a group of women who with their children were receiving temporary refuge in a house run - without official help - by a woman from Chiswick Women's Aid.
Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men.
Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy.