No Day Off

Siti, a young woman from a small village in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is lured by an agency to leave her infant son and husband to work as a maid in Singapore. In the hopes of giving her family a better life, she leaves and works as a domestic worker under harrowing conditions and the good will of her employers. Siti is not an isolated case, about 150,000 maids in Singapore have a similar destiny.

Director: Eric Khoo
Runtime: 38m58s
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
Availability: library@esplanade, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
Accession No: 2018-D-1003350
Subtitles: English
Release Year: 2006
Producer: Tan Fong Cheng, Freddie Yeo
Language: English, Indonesian, Mandarin
Production Country: Indonesia, Singapore

Cast List:

Crew:

Executive Producer - James Toh, Jacqueline Khoo, Michael Wiluan
Director of Photography - Jason Tan
Editor - Derek Ho, Rayner Lim
Art Director - Sabrina Yeong
Research - Chiew Sung Ching
Production Manager - Felicia Tan, Denise Koh, Mellisa Ng
Batam Co-ordinator - Raja Azrim
Gaffer - Wong Kok Whye
Junior Grip - Jeffrey Tham, Wee Liam Neo, Chan Yu Perng
Sound Recordist - Chan Lian Thong
Set Photographer - Rory Daniel
Panasonic Camera Support - Jac Kee
Production Accountant - Christopher Lim
Post Production - Infinite Frameworks
Post Production Producer - Gavin Chelvan
Post Supervisor - Lawrence Ang
Assistant Editor - Simon Tan
Smoke Artist - Joseph Chia
Colourist - Yazmin B Matrahah
Audio Post Production - AMX Audiophiles
Audio Producer - Terence Chan
Audio Engineer - David Ong, Chus Shuyan, Jane Lai

Keywords:

Activity – Babysitting, Cleaning, Cooking, House work
Country – Indonesia, Singapore
Emotion – Loneliness, Responsibility, Hope, Resignation, Defencelessness, Vulnerability
People – Maid Agent, Maid, Domestic Worker
Places - Sulawesi, Batam Maid Training Centre, Landed house, HDB flat
Theme – Poverty Immigration, Exploitation, Future Dreams, Language Barrier, Education, Gap between rich and poor
Relationship – Maid/Employer