Lingua Franca

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Isabel Sandoval

Status Released

Release Date 2020-07-01

Storyline

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