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Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Isabel Sandoval Olivia

Lynn Cohen Olga

Eamon Farren Alex

Ivory Aquino Trixie

Lev Gorn Murray