Sand Dollars (2014)

Sand Dollars
DirectorIsrael Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán

Plot

Noelí is a young Dominican woman working as an escort for tourists. She has a three-year relationship with Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) a much older French woman who buys her services. Despite their transactional relationship, Anne is in love with Noelí and Noelí plans to use her to get a visa to go to France then Barcelona to reconnect with her mother who has moved there.

While out with Anne, Noelí sees her boyfriend with another girl at a club. She angrily confronts him while Anne is in the washroom, but Anne sees the tail end of their fight. Anne leaves the club and Noeli tries to stop her from leaving. When it becomes clear that all Noelí wants is for Anne to pay their bar tab, Anne slaps her and leaves. On her way home, Noelí crashes her motorcycle, which is stolen as she lies injured beside the road.

Anne struggles for a few days as she does not hear from Noelí and thinks she has abandoned her. Noeli meanwhile does not want to go back to Anne and tells her boyfriend to start providing for them. As money runs out she returns to Anne and tells her she is pregnant. Anne accompanies her to get an ultrasound to see if her unborn child is hurt and together they see the sonogram. After their reunion Anne presents Noelí with a passport and visa so that they can go to France together. She confesses to a friend that she does not believe that Noelí will be happy in Paris and they will be able to return to the Dominican Republic soon.

Noeli's boyfriend learns she is pregnant and plans to have the child overseas. He asks her to stay and she declines, going ahead with the preparations to leave with Anne.

The night of her departure Noelí's boyfriend comes to visit her. Noelí opens a drawer in the nightstand and takes her passport; she then steals money and Anne's credit cards. She and her boyfriend drive away and she tells him she loves him.

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