Characters & Themes
The Salt Mines (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 47 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Susana Aikin, Carlos Aparicio
- Starring
- Gigi, Ricardo, Giovanna
The film follows Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who have survived years on Manhattan’s streets, supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. Seeking shelter, they take up residence in abandoned garbage trucks parked beside the city’s winter‑time salt piles that melt snow, a makeshift refuge they call “The Salt Mines.”
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