Salted Water (2005)

3.7/10 94 min Drama

Overview

A young Cuban named Olga arrives in Spain with a scholarship convinced that she has landed the chance of a lifetime. Deciding to stay, she eventually becomes an illegal immigrant, suffering the brunt of marginalization and, unable to return home, having to get by as she can. Mari Jo is a young girl from a poor Valencian suburb, born into a family with nothing but problems. Fate has marked her life as she too becomes an outcast. Both end up working illegally in a furniture factory where they earn three times less than the minimum legal salary.

Cast

Yoima Valdés

Olga

Leyre Berrocal

Mari Jo

Candela Fernández

Lucía

Lola Moltó

Ofelia Medina

Joan Crosas

Empar Ferrer

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