Chinese Laundry (2022)

Mong has just arrived in New York to take over the family business - a laundromat on the Upper East Side. Though she doesn't know much English and had no friends, she is determined to find a better life. While working hard as an immigrant, she finds little objects in the customers' laundries - an opera ticket, an elegant pin - and fantasizes about the customers' interesting lives. In Mong's day dreams, people only speak her native language, Mandarin. When she fantasizes about opera, a leitmotiv of the film, arias from "Don Giovanni" and "Carmen" are even sang in Mandarin. As Mong grows more comfortable in her adopted culture, she also begins to crush on one of her customers. And then another.