SINGAPORE - In the opening scene of Netflix's Maid, a young mother tiptoes out of her home in the middle of the night, straps her two-year-old into a car seat, and drives off as a man runs after her, screaming.
The woman, Alex, has friends and family. Yet as the series based on writer Stephanie Land's best-selling memoir poignantly illustrates, you can be surrounded by people and yet feel utterly alone.
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