Triple Eight Palace
"Official Selection at Cannes' Cinéfondation (2007)"
Synopsis
NYC. A young Chinese girl owes a staggering smuggling debt to the Snakeheads. Her feelings of self-worth collide with her new life options: the sweatshop, fourteen hour days, sleeping eighteen to a room. Or Gang life. Bodywork. And Full Service, at two hundred and up.
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