Alice, a perfect wife and mother, lives happily with her husband and child until the day she discovers he is living a double life that has ruined her financially and left her a single mother. Alice fights back and dives into a world beyond anything she has ever known.
Acting
Piponnier's face does everything — watch her eyes calcify into steel.
Direction
Mackerras shoots sex work with zero male gaze, just practical dignity.
Director
Josephine Mackerras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Josephine Mackerras crowdfunded this after industry execs told her 'nobody wants films about sex workers.' It won SXSW's Grand Jury Prize.
The film deliberately never shows Alice's clients' faces — centering her subjectivity in a genre that usually exploits women's bodies.
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