A no-holds-barred Upton Sinclair-ish expose of social injustices in the Netherlands of the 1880s, and none too soon. The titular character, a strong-boned but sensitive farm girl uprooted to urban Amsterdam, encounters her first rude shock midway through the credits when she discovers her older sister in the ship's hold, spread-eagled beneath a bare-assed sailor. A girl of fine moral fiber, she hauls off and clobbers the brute with her volume of Jules Verne, then wanders off distractedly to the ship's prow to dream of prettier things and to turn her profile to the pink horizon. Several dozen indignities later (her sister, for instance, takes revenge for the shipboard incident by using Jules Verne's pages as toilet paper), she rescues a wounded revolutionist from a bloody labor riot, he turns out to be an eligible bachelor as well as a millionaire, and they live happily ever after. Starring Monique van de Ven; directed by Paul Verhoeven (of the atrocious Turkish Delight). (1975) — Duncan Shepherd