A Sundance Prize-winner, festival favorite, and critical hit, THE MAID is an insightful comedic drama about family, class and self-discovery from rising Chilean director Sebastián Silva.

After 23 years of service to the Valdes family, Raquel is comfortably ensconced in a vague existence between maid and her illusion that she is a family member. Her barely concealed bitterness and increased clashes with her employer’s eldest daughter lead the family to think she is overworked. They hire more help, and, feeling usurped, Raquel begins to sabotage each new employee by resorting to childish antics, clinging to her ambiguous place within the family. Only Lucy, last in the line of new maids, is able to nudge Raquel gently toward the momentous kick-start needed to rediscover herself. (2009 Sundance Film Festival Program Guide)