'On Falling', Laura Carreira's debut feature, follows Aurora, a migrant e-commerce worker facing the psychological burdens of the gig economy. Her daily grind and financial instability lead to personal crises, illustrated by her dependence on a smartphone for connection. Carreira sheds light on the often-overlooked emotional cost of precarious employment while focusing on Aurora’s loneliness and struggle. The film, inspired by real interviews with workers, portrays the dark reality of fulfillment centers and the toll of being too exhausted to establish life outside work.
When you're always on edge and there's so little security, it has consequences... we don't think about what the cost is existentially.
They were expecting the job to be physically demanding, but didn't realise how psychologically demanding it would be.
When disaster strikes and the phone is smashed, the repair cost leaves her unable to pay the electricity bill, precipitating a shameful unravelling.
After a few months of living that way, with few financial securities, people find the horizon a little darker.
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