Goyta

Story

Synopsis

The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Polish, immigrant women wait to be taken to Hassidic homes to help with the cleaning of their house. In the movie they negotiate the labor at $8 an hour. After scrubbing and scouring for a bit, and after observing a world that is completely foreign to her, Mariola succumbs to the toxic fumes of the cleaning agents and falls and faints. After regaining consciousness, she leaves the house in an angry huff. At the prodding of his sister and father, Yoyli goes out to find her and offer her a ride. She accepts not realizing the differences of their worlds that would place the two young people in a tense and heated situation that is never fully resolved.

Director

Joanna Jurewicz

Writers

Joanna Jurewicz, Pearl Gluck

Language

English

Country

Poland, United States of America

Release date

24 May 2007

Budget

$50,000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Agnieszka Podsiadlik

  Mariola

• Abe Lebovic

  Yoyli

• Faigy Salomon

  Young Hassidic Woman

• Suzanne Toren

  Mother

• David Benger

  Hassidic Boy

• 

  Jessica Carlson

  Miriam

• Osher T. Girshberg

  Father