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Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron bids for a second Oscar as Best Director for this valentine to family life in 1970s Mexico City, shot in lustrous black and white. Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) works long hours as a maid in the home of Antonio (Fernando Grediaga) and his wife Sofia (Marina de Tavira). The couple have four demanding children, whose care is part of Cleo's daily duties, and they share the household with Sofia's formidable mother Teresa (Veronica Garcia). Over the course of 12 turbulent months, Cleo witnesses fissures in her employers' marriage against a backdrop of social and political unrest in the city. The maid faces her own romantic woes when her relationship with martial arts-obsessed boyfriend Fermin (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) buckles and leaves her to face the prospect of raising a child alone.