Lingua Franca

Original title: Lingua Franca

95 minutes • 2020 • 6.1 Score

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.

Isabel Sandoval

Director