Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.
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Isabel Sandoval
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Sarah Brennan Kolb
Executive Producer
E.A. Rocha
Executive Producer
R.S. Francisco
Executive Producer
Nicole Cosgrove
Executive Producer
Fernando Ortigas
Executive Producer
Gigi Dement
Executive Producer
Vincent R. Nebrida
Executive Producer
Samuel S. Verzosa
Executive Producer
Romulo Aromin Jr.
Executive Producer
Jhett Tolentino
Producer
Carlo Velayo
Producer
Darlene Malimas
Producer
Jerome Kerkman
Producer
Isaac Banks
Director of Photography
