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The Salt Mines
The Salt Mines
8.3
/10
19 Ratings

THE SALT MINES

Directed by Susana Aiken, Carlos Aparicio
United States, 1990
Documentary

Synopsis

The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latina transwomen who support their drug addictions through sex work and live inside broken garbage trucks that the sanitation department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow.

Synopsis

The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latina transwomen who support their drug addictions through sex work and live inside broken garbage trucks that the sanitation department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow.