Can she keep her children sweet and innocent and still make a living? This is a true story from the red-light district in Amsterdam. The novel takes place in the 1980s and shows a continuous spiral from being a homeless family down to the horrors of survival on the dark side of society. Wolfmother is a loving mother. She's not a prostitute and this is a problem. The children are hungry. They need love and attention as well as clothes . . . As she opens her home as a 'shooting gallery' for drug addicts, she somehow manages to create the illusion of a world guided by normality. But there are serious doubts. Another baby is on the way. When the police destroy their home and take all the children including a tiny newborn, she feels utterly crushed. Her husband has become a drug addict and the prospects are dire. Can there be hope for a better life?