Nola (2003) on Netflix

Plot summary

Nola is eighteen and writes songs. She leaves her abusive home in Kansas and travels to New York City to find the biological father she has never met. Her first night in the city is spent in Central Park. A small diner hires her, and she stays with Ben, a fry cook there who attends law school at night. Margaret, Ben's landlady and the diner's real owner, offers Nola work as her assistant at an escort service and shows her the luxurious room that comes with the job.