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Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
- DIRECTOR
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- Ken Loach
- WRITERS
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- Paul Laverty
- Parallax Pictures
- STUDIOS
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- Parallax Pictures
- Alta Films
- Alta Producción
- WEBSITE
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- WWW.FILMFOUR.COM/BREADANDROSES/
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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