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.

• DirectorKen Loach
• Release14 September 2000
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 50m
• Budget$5,500,000
• Revenue$706,876
• Rate
  

  6.3
  125 reviews
• Productions

  Parallax Pictures, Road Movies, Tornasol Media, Alta Films, Bac Films, BiM Distribuzione, Cinéart, Filmkollektiv Zürich AG, Film4 Productions, WDR/Arte, La Sept Cinéma, ARD Degeto, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen