Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa
Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a
maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect
opera
troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled
son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar
calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken
spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve
and her hell is about to begin.