SUNDAY BEAUTY QUEEN

Without the Filipino domestic workers the daily lives of many families in Hong Kong would break down. But the living conditions of these women are precarious: working all around the clock, bad treatment and the arbitrariness of employers are commonplace. On the free Sundays, the women organize beauty contests. The meetings are not just fun, they are networking. Sunday Beauty Queen shows surprising strategies of self-empowerment in the face of the impositions of modern slavery.