The Cleaning Lady
"It's a dirty business."
Overview
A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.
The Cleaning Lady centers on a doctor who finds herself trading medicine for crime after the U.S. healthcare system leaves her with no way to save her son. Élodie Yung plays a protagonist who moves from hospitals to crime scenes, scrubbing floors for the mob to survive. The tension stems from her dual life, where sanitizing evidence keeps her in the orbit of a dangerous crime boss while she works to keep her family intact.
This drama thrives on the friction between a mother desperate to stay under the radar and the FBI agents tightening the net around illegal employment circles. Situations that begin with simple blackmail escalate into moral gray areas where cleaning becomes a craft used for survival. It presents a world where someone invisible to the establishment holds enough secrets to manipulate the criminal underworld from the inside.
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- First Aired
- January 03, 2022
- Status
- Canceled
- Episode Runtime
- 45 minutes
- Origin
- US
- TMDB Votes
- 231