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Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man shes secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that shes a trans woman.

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