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Bread and Roses (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
Bread and Roses - ScreenPress Film Screenplays Author:Paul Laverty, Ken Loach In this emotionally?charged screenplay, Paul Laverty?s third collaboration with director Ken Loach, the writer explores the most marginalized of LA communities. ?Bread and Roses? is a look at ?the other America? as seen through the eyes of Maya, a young Mexican woman who?s been smuggled across the border to join her sister Rosa in Los Angeles. ... more »Against Rosa?s wishes, Maya takes a cleaning job at a prestigious downtown office block, where she begins to confront the realities of life on the edges of American society. The arrival of Sam, a dedicated and uncompromising union organizer who?s determined to improve the lot of the workers, sets in motion a series of events that has devastating consequences for them all.« less