Nancy Castro

Women migrant workers from Mexico stand by the roadside and hope to find some work, the same way crowds of unemployed Americans used to stand during the Great Depression. One of them, Fernanda, gets lucky - she is hired into a Hasidic family. There Nechama, a young mother who becomes suspicious that Fernanda is lazy, discovers that a chauvinistic Jew from the recruiting agency doesn’t pay the cleaning lady. Fernanda explains herself in broken English, and even though she and her new friend might not be able to obtain any justice, they at least will be capable of revenge. Mutual understanding will prove to be stronger than the class division of society, as is right and proper. Isn’t this the kind of reconciliation across genders and cultures that the United States, and subsequently the entire world, are hoping for?

ジョーは離婚して戻ってきた娘や孫と一緒に暮らしながら、親友のウィリーやアルとブルックリンの公園でローンボウリングをするのが日課になっていた。彼らは40年間、ウェクスラー社で働き、定年後は悠々自適な年金生活を送るはずが、会社の所有者が変わったことで年金がもらえなくなる。さらにジョーは住宅ローンのことで銀行に相談に行くが相手にしてもらえない。その時、銀行強盗事件が起き、ジョーはある計画を思い付く。