In Hong Kong, more than 190,000 female Filipina immigrants work as house maids. They live in with their employers and provide 24-hour services six days per week, with just Sunday off. Twenty-nine-year-old Cherry goes to Chater Garden near Central Station to enjoy her day off after a tough working week. Cherry and her friends are busy rehearsing their dancing and catwalk model walking for a beauty contest. Director Baby Ruth Villarama meticulously blends the exhausting daily lives of five such live-in maids and the dreamlike, one-day distraction of Sunday. Having hosted this beauty contest since 2008, Leo explains that this pageant is a charity event that enhances the self-esteem of female immigrants from the Philippines, and provides practical help too. The “Miss Philippines Tourism Hong Kong” event follows the typical format of government-led beauty contests. It’s hosted in the middle of Hong Kong’s Central area creating a subculture and it becomes the only space for these women to show themselves off, a moment when they can dream of something else and forget their identities as immigrant workers. (Hong Soin)