Director: Miguel Faus
Set over one sweltering summer, this Spanish-American comedy-drama follows a young Colombian woman who takes a live-in job at a coastal estate and slowly stops playing by the rules of the house.
What is The Quiet Maid about?
Paula Grimaldo plays a maid hired by a wealthy family for their summer stay at a sun-drenched mansion. She arrives with instructions to stay invisible: keep quiet, keep the house running, and never let the family notice she has a life of her own. For a while she does exactly that, moving through the household almost like furniture while the family lounges by the pool and hosts guests. But the longer the season stretches on, the more she starts testing the edges of what she is allowed to want. Flirtations, small rebellions, and quiet acts of self-assertion accumulate until the line between servant and guest starts to blur. Directed by Miguel Faus, the film uses the claustrophobia of a shared house to look at class, labor, and desire without ever raising its voice. The tone stays light and observational even as the power dynamics underneath get sharper.
Cast & crew
Paula Grimaldo anchors the film with a performance built on restraint, letting small gestures carry most of the emotional weight. Ariadna Gil and Luis Bermejo play the family with an easy, sunburnt confidence that never tips into cartoonish villainy, which keeps the class commentary grounded rather than preachy.
Context & significance
The film comes from Spanish-American writer-director Miguel Faus and was shot on real Spanish coastline, using the mansion setting as a kind of pressure cooker for the story's class tensions. It premiered on the festival circuit in 2024 before wider release, part of a wave of recent films examining domestic labor from the worker's point of view rather than the employer's.
Where & how to watch
The Quiet Maid streams with a Persian dub, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the story without subtitles. As with everything on K-Time, watching requires logging into a free account first; the film's page itself is open to browse without signing in. The interface and listings are built around a Farsi-first experience for the diaspora audience.