I am just over 40 minutes in.
It's very definitely a Nick Broomfield film and much that I like his 'Look at me! I am trying to get a story!!' ones, this is him trying to make it his, rather than the woman reporter who is actually doing the work. I wonder whether the 'Look at me! Attempting to drop off new glasses through the toilet window!!' footage is, at its politest, a recreation. Because who'd be such an idiot as to take a camera person to that? Does it look like he cares about her more than getting 'his' film made? No.
It's a film about hopes and reality. The Stratford owner expected to make lots, but that place had only seven clients for quickies in a week. The two Romanian women there are doubtless hoped by the makers to be naive, but they know exactly what they are doing. The clients hope for someone in their 20s, and get someone who is late 30s or 40s. The women who paid to come to the UK hoped for a better life and found that, without choices, they get things like 'every woman has to...' do OWO or whatever.
It's a film about what happens when you make everyone running a brothel a criminal: you get people who are not nice doing it.
It's also a film about immigration, the exploitation that arises for people without the 'right' papers, and the fact that people will do what it takes when it's made hard to get a better life. Ghosts was better for that.
Oh, the source for the statement that there are an estimated two thousand brothels in London and 80% of the workers are illegal immigrants... that's one of Eaves' inadequately sourced statements, isn't it? It'd be ironic if the brothel in Stratford was only opened because of their 'THE OLYMPICS ARE GOING TO BRING IN THOUSANDS OF WOMEN FOR SEX' stories.