Sam Xu

"....Mong(Sam Xu) has just arrived in New York to take over the family business - a laundromat on the Upper East Side. Though she doesn't know much English and had no friends, she is determined to find a better life. While working hard as an immigrant, she finds little objects in the customers' laundries - an opera ticket, an elegant pin - and fantasizes about the customers' interesting lives. ..."

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"Chinese Laundry"

A James Ivory Production 

Film by Giorgio Arcelli