A WORKING MOM

Thursday, July 26 | 1:00 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street

Synopsis
A Working Mom is the heartbreaking story of one mother’s extreme efforts to save her impoverished family – only to find she may have lost them in the process.

In 1990, 22 year-old Marisa Villozial left her 3-year-old son and infant daughter in the care of her parents in Bolivia and traveled overseas to look for a job in the West. Landing in Israel, she spent 15 years doing grueling menial labor as a cleaning woman. Dutifully she sent back home her pay, believing she was building a house for her family and providing her children with a better life. She followed their growth through photographs and periodic telephone calls.

But in 2005, when Marisa returned to Bolivia, she discovered that her money had been squandered, there was no new house, and, worse yet, she was a stranger to her own children. Her story is all too universal: one of poverty, globalization, and cultural alienation – both abroad and at home.

ADDITIONAL SCREENING:
Saturday, July 28