Set in a growing metropolitan city in the midst of an economic transition, Radiance follows the story of a few individuals who want more from the city than it promises to give them: Aria, a sex worker, orchestrates an escape from her gruesome life in an elite brothel while Dina, a disabled young woman with an overly protective sister rebels for love that will open her world beyond an isolated bedroom in the middle of suburban wasteland. As Stanley, an aspiring young entrepreneur, arrives in the city to climb the ladder of booming textile industry, we witness the consequences of economic progression on inequity of gender roles in a developing society.