An improvised rebellion filmed in secret kitchens — domestic workers become the directors of their own stories.
Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker. The script is the result of a nine-months acting improv laboratory with a group of Indonesian women migrant domestic workers, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.
Acting
Non-professionals channeling real trauma into devastating naturalism.
Direction
Nine-month improv lab turning exploitation into collaborative authorship.
Writing
Scripts born from actual lived experience, not research or imagination.
Director
Alberto Gerosa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
FR
HK
