Themes
Certain ice cream flavors are only for the family of the house and certain flavors are what the "help" is allowed to access.
What is social inequality?
The focus of this film, chooses to leave her own daughter behind and raise another family's son.
Who is Val?
This is the way the film begins. Describing Val, her day-to-day, and her situation.
What is Val's background?
Val raises the son she was tasked with looking after and chooses to leave her own daughter behind.
What is family dynamics?
Vals estranged daughter who comes to study in he town her mother has moved to, causing some tension.
Who is Jessica?
Val's daughter who she has not seen in a very long time moves to the area her mother works in to try and get into university.
What is Jessica arriving?
Val chooses to find a better life elsewhere to succeed because it is her place in life, Jessica wants to do better than what she is relegated to.
What is generational differences?
The wealthy patriarch of the family Val has ended up working for. A very busy man who doesn't often make time for his son.
Who is Carlos?
Jessica disregards what Val knows to be the accepted situation in the house.
What is challenging the status quo?
Fabinho and Val form a close bond without being related, Val and her own daughter lack this connection.
What are relationships?
The mother of the family Val works for. Keeps her husband and son confined to where she wants them.
Who is Barbara?
Jessica passes the uni exam, but Fabinho fails.
What are the test results?
The way the family treats Val because of her background and where she is from.
What is cultural prejudice?
The son of Val's employers, becomes much more attached to her due to his parents low involvement in his life.
Who is Fabinho?
After sticking with it for years, Val chooses to quit her job working for the family and returns to life with her daughter.
What is Val's departure?