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A Film by
Young Man Kang
A seemingly innocent woman
becomes involved in the netherworld of massage parlors
in this drama. Maya is a young Asian woman who arrives
one day at a seedy massage parlor in a run-down neighborhood
in Los Angeles. Dressed in shabby clothes and speaking
in broken English, she asks Mamasan, who runs the parlor,
for a job, and Mamasan immediately puts the attractive
Maya on staff. While obviously new to the world of "shower
and massage" - which is about sex rather than physical
therapy - Maya soon becomes one of the most popular women
working the parlor, and she soon bonds with her co-workers,
including the thick-skinned Asia, vulnerable Yuko, practical
Jenna, and self-centered Sammy. Maya also gets to know
Harry, a freelance writer and would-be poet who at the
age of thirty has yet to lose his virginity. As he stops
in for the occasional "massage," Maya and the
painfully shy Harry find themselves developing a very
non-businesslike infatuation for one another, and as she
confronts her growing love for Harry, Maya must come to
terms with the secret that brought her to the parlor in
the first place.
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