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
Hong Kong's 400,000+ migrant domestic workers are legally required to live with employers, making private spaces like Sunday gatherings in public parks their only sanctuary.
The film emerged from a 2019 workshop where director Gerosa discovered participants had already been secretly recording their own stories on phones.
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