I am not a Singaporean, neither have I been there before. I can't tell the stories I saw in the movie was 100% but I guess some maybe correct. There is a lot of messages that the messages that the movie wants to deliver. For example, some sex workers choose to see sex to support their families while some doing it for tuitions, clothes and other luxury items. That's basically true. A lot of sex workers encounter violent and demanding clients, which is also true. Some clients fall in love with sex workers, and vise versa. That's true. Sadly, whether you like it or not, the fact that some evil parents would prostitute their children for money is also true, especially in less developed countries. Not too much music you can hear in the movie and a lot of street sights and brothels gave me a feeling that the movie was trying to tell a true story about a red light district in Singapore.