The Balance of Power Is About to Change
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O'Brien
Production Companies: Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions
Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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