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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.

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren, Ivory Aquino, Lev Gorn, P.J. Boudousqué, Andrea Leigh, Leif Steinert

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