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Ogni anno, durante il settimo mese del calendario lunare cinese, le porte dell'inferno si aprono e per trenta giorni i morti camminano tra i vivi. Si tratta di un periodo pericoloso in cui molte regole devono essere seguite per evitare di essere presi dai fantasmi. Per Rosa Dimaano, appena giunta a Singapore e accolta come badante in una famiglia, si tratta solo di superstizioni. Ma presto dovrà ricredersi.
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The Maid (2005)
93 min
Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.