Leona Calderon

2011, 80 minutes

Drama about Philippino workers in London.

Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic Doris Day fan earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fancied by her landlord who dreams of dancing with her to the tunes of Nat King Cole. Another admirer is a homeless man who gets endears by her jolly disposition and not by her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated old English lady, a migrant worker with no visa and a charitable middle age woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her much awaited retirement which is now doomed following a diagnoses of uterine cancer. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between loosing her hard earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?

---