Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2009. In a recruitment Centre, women undergo training to become maids. They learn how to use a microwave, how to be polite, their future employer’s language and stamina at work. Tens of thousands of them leave each month for Asia or the Middle East in the hope of bringing a better salary back home. But hope sometimes turns into a nightmare: overworked and mistreated, they are reduced to a state of slavery. Their stories lie behind the domestic function for which they were trained, revealed in looks, words, laughter and shocking silence.
Production : Dérives
Co-production : CBA, RTBF
With the support of the Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Centre pour l’Egalité des Chances et la Lutte contre le Racisme, Damaged Goods, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Fondation Roi Baudouin
2020:
Festival Filmer le Travail, France, 02/20
