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The gringa is expected to perform menial labor so her captor (s) can make car and rent payments.
Throughout this terse, entertaining parable (it won the grand prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival), the Belgian-born writer-directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ( La Promesse , 1996) immerse you in the sensations of Rosetta's life: her daily, roundabout slog through the woods to reach the trailer park where she lives with her alcoholic mother (she's too ashamed to go through the front entrance); her frustrating treks to find employment, however menial; and, most of all, her countless rages at a society that refuses to grant her a "normal" (her word) existence.
At times, your reporters object that workfarers do "menial," unskilled, dead-end work.
The other striking fact: Women who work at menial jobs are poorer than women on welfare.
phr . usually in the phrase in the White House , said of female visitors who were taken captive by the prison staff and detained to perform menial labor and to work as domestics in the Huntsville area, without wages or salary.