A story as old as time? Women are enticed by the glitzy world of fashion only to discover they actually are nothing more than living dolls used to showcase someone else's talent. Let's be honest, how much talent do you need to walk down a runway?

Not much as the fashion world continues to employ younger and younger women with bodies that continually set the standard for female beauty back forty years.

In this film that was shot by model Sara Ziff and her boyfriend, the audience is tempted to feel pity and concern for these women.

They moan about late nights, plane rides to Milan, then on to Venice, then to Paris and on to Rio de Janeiro. Fittings for their shows can go until 3 a.m. and then they have to be up at 8 a.m. for the show.

Tired, faces breaking out, overzealous photographers and the inevitable issue of their weights turn the models in this documentary from optimistic young children (many start this career at 14) to disappointed middle-aged (in modelling terms, age 24) women.

But just as you start to feel something for them, I can totally understand the toll travelling takes on you after navigating the world, they spout out things like: "You know it's crazy we're getting paid $50,000 a day." Sympathy vanishes.

Like any career there are going to be highs and lows. Now I am not saying teens as young as 14 should enter modelling and I am certainly not excusing the sexual assaults and improper behaviour these models deal with, but part of me kept thinking during this film: "So what is new? Haven't we heard this before?"

At the end of the day, while I was not shocked or surprised by much (though Sara's indifference to a $100,000 cheque made me a little mad) it was an interesting watch.

This film was screened on Friday, March 19, at the Speciality Cinema at 9.15 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.