Cate Blanchett scrubs toilets and breaks your heart. Class is a costume we can't afford.
An adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s stellar short story collection, examining the lives of women working a wide variety of demanding jobs.
Acting
Blanchett disappears into multiple working women—no vanity, all truth.
Writing
Berlin's prose: every sentence a wound that doesn't bleed yet.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Berlin worked as a cleaning woman, teacher, and ER clerk while writing; she died in 2004 before her posthumous fame.
The book spent decades out of print; Blanchett's production company rescued it, understanding that prestige TV now does what indie film used to.
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