It is 1889, New Mexico. The gold rush is over and most of the prospectors have moved on. In the middle of nowhere stands a crumbling Antebellum mansion - a bordello that has seen better days. Enoch, the inept pimp, owes considerable to the town's psychopathic Sheriff. Money is tight: business is down and the five-woman in the house are tearing each other apart. The only they can agree in is their love and protection of Angel, a seven-year-old child whose mother died in childbirth. Enoch still has big dreams despite his difficulties. He believes that there is gold in his yard and, when he is not reading books on Alaska, he spends his time digging and dreaming of a better life there. His past creeps up on him when Madame Gabi, a wealthy but evil brothel proprietress, visits him. She offers Enoch a small fortune for Angel but, although he turns her down, the women are convinced that he has agreed to sell the child. Their suspicions are further confirmed when Enoch announces that they ...