Alya is a Lebanese woman in Detroit who works the late shift at a convenience store. She’s shy and yearning for adventure, but, stuck in the monotony of her life, she secretly dreams of a little bit more.
The housekeeper is at the end of a tidy, tight, and practiced routine in the room. She wasn’t expecting anyone to come back yet, and this subtle invasion shifts the mood of what had been a simple chore.
The rounded new girl at work doesn’t appear to mind the extra looks she receives. She has a somewhat playful aura around her, as if the correct dialogue could expose that there is actually more than that innocent and seductive smile.
A young receptionist at a small-town hotel devotes all her time and energy to a dream of one day finding herself in a palace. But for now she fills her dull, routine summer days with sensual encounters with various handsome hotel guests.