What appears to be the most political film from Ken Loach since Ladybird Ladybird is also his first in North America. Rosa's American husband has diabetes and sits around the house. They have two children.
Money is tight.
Rosa finds Maya a job as a cleaner in a downtown office block, where she works. Sam, a college student activist, tries to interest the janitors into joining a union. Mostly, they are afraid, convinced that their boss will sack them if he finds out and hire another crew from the legion of unemployed migrants prepared to accept minimal wages without benefits. Paul Laverty's script has labels tagged to issues as if the exploitation of human resources takes preference over plot. Rosa can't afford to lose the money from her job to join a demo.