The Salt Mines

Year: 1990

Runtime: 47 mins

Language: English

Directors: Susana Aikin, Carlos Aparicio

Documentary

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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