Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as "The Salt Mines".
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- Frameline, Starfish
Keywords
- prostitute
- transvestite
- drug addiction
- squatter
- hiv
- crack cocaine
- poverty
- crack addict
- homeless
- substance abuse
- woman director
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Top Cast
Ricardo as Self (as Sara)
Gigi as Self
Giovanna as Self
Top Crew
Susana Aikin · Director
Carlos Aparicio · Director
Elliott Sharp · Composer
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