Soft Core

A young womanΓÇÖs madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany NewellΓÇÖs savage,tender Soft Core. Ruth is lost. SheΓÇÖs living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dinoa ketamine dealer with a lingerie habitoverdosing on television and regretting her masterΓÇÖs degree. When she starts dancing at a strip clubshe becomes Baby Blueseductress of crypto brosoutcastsand old lovers alike. Plunged into this swirling underworld of beautiful womenfast cashungodly hoursand strangersΓÇÖ secretsBabyΓÇÖs grip on reality begins to loosen. She is sure she can handle itΓÇöuntil one autumn morning when Dino disappears without a trace. Thus begins a nocturnal quest for the one she still lovesΓÇöthrough the misty hills of San Francisco; in dive bars and bus depots; at the BDSM dungeon where she takes a part-time gig. Along the wayshe meets Simona recluse who pays her for increasingly bizarre favors; a philosophizing suicide fetishist named Nobody; and Emelinethe beautiful and balletic new hire who reminds Baby of someone . . . A brutally funnypropulsive story of powerfantasyloveand lossBrittany NewellΓÇÖs Soft Core is an ode to the heartbroken and unhingedto those whose appetites lead them astray. It is a hallucinogenic romp about a girl coming undonewhose longing for friendshipromanceand revenge will take her over the edge and back again.