Foreign Ghosts (1998)

A trilogy of interrelated stories about three young immigrant women in Montreal Mary Lis mother arrives from China to live with her preconceived ideas about all nonChinese people But after being rescued from a snow storm by a black man she is forced to rethink her beliefs Then theres Pepe Annas boyfriend a hopeless womanizer who operates under a false identity Tanya a beautiful woman from the Dominican Republic waits tables in a coffee bar hiding away from a disturbing secret past Their stories of pride hope fear and desire collide in the melting pot of this big city