Plot Synopsis

Inspired by Fred Saueressig's 2016 book, "06-Cowboys," about the rise of the telephone sex lines in the late 1980s, DIRTY LINES is a drama series centers on an enterprising college student who stumbles into a new career at a phone sex line started by two wildly different brothers. The story opens in 1987's Amsterdam, at a time when Dutch society was changing rapidly. Psychology student Marly Salomon takes on a side job working for a brand new firm: Teledutch -- a company started by two brothers, Frank and Ramon Stigter, who established Europe's first erotic telephone lines. Frank and Ramon become rich overnight, and Marly finds herself immersed in this wild and rapid transformation. The final years of the Cold War sparked a sense of hope and inspired a new generation to celebrate life to its fullest. Amsterdam became the center of that cultural revolution, and the erotic phone lines offered the opportunity to experience anonymous sex in a new way, changing the morality of its consumers, but also very much the people creating it.