Bread and Roses (2000)

Directors

Ken Loach

Cast

Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carillo, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frank Davila, Lillian Hurst

The story

Maya, a recently arrived undocumented immigrant in Los Angeles, is eager to build a new life away from her old one, where she briefly worked in a bar. She desires to work in a high-rise building as a janitor alongside her sister Rosa. Once employed, Maya discovers the stark disparity in wages and working conditions that the janitors, many of them immigrants, face daily.

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