It no longer counts how beautiful, desirable and desired you are if you find yourself stranded without a penny to your name. That's is not just short of cash for the moment, lacking some ready change, but meaning you do not have any means to pay for anything. That's exactly the situation Valerie, the title figure of the film, finds herself in. She is a photo model, she is used to the finest things in life and so unprepared for the high speed curveball life has just thrown in her face. It's Christmas Eve and she's stuck in the underground carpark of the luxury Hotel Hyatt in Berlin!