Ghosts (2006 film)

Ghosts is a 2006 drama film directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. The title is a reference to the Cantonese slang term Gweilo , meaning ghost man, used for white people.

The film follows her from China to the United Kingdom where she gets a job in a meatpacking factory. It reveals that the UKs food industry is heavily dependent on underpaid, exploited migrant labour. Massage i.e. sex work is offered as a profitable alternative, but she resists this. She finds herself dependent on a gangmaster, who, however, is only one step up himself and needs to bribe richer contractors to get even badly paid work. His position and that of the group is deteriorating, and it is in some desperation that they turn to cocklepicking at Morecambe Bay.The film begins and ends with scenes recreating the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, in whichillegal workers lost their lives whilst cocklepicking. ........

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