Lingua Franca

Overview

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.

Cast

Isabel Sandoval

Olivia

Lynn Cohen

Olga

Eamon Farren

Alex

Ivory Aquino

Trixie

Lev Gorn

Murray

P.J. Boudousqué

Andrei

Andrea Leigh

Daria

Leif Steinert

Matthew

Jake Soister

Daniel

Roman Blat

Viktor