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If you walk around any park, underpass or public area in Hong Kong on a Sunday you are likely to stumble across the strange phenomenon. To the untrained eye it will look like there are thousands of people camping out for an upcoming rock concert, or that Hong Kong has a huge number of well dressed homeless people. In fact, what you witnessing is the weekly day off for domestic helpers. These workers are paid about USD $ 500 per month. They get half a day off per week, usually from Sunday morning to about 8pm on Sunday night. Not staying out overnight you will notice! It is estimated the city's more than 300,000 domestic helpers - mostly Filipino and Indonesian women who work up to 18-hour days, six days a week, for just HK $ 4,310 a month. With just seven days a year for the first two years of service, and up to a maximum of 14 days a year, they have been working for more than nine years, it's rare that they get the chance to return to their home countries. Most maids take Sunday off, to have the opportunity to be with friends, to share food, to dance, to cut their hair to each other, to do manicure, to pray, to sing .... for few hours. Since when I had to spend a Sunday in Hong Kong for any reason, I began to look at this situation in a different way. That is, my whole project was based on a contrast between two completely different realities, the luxury of brands with "poverty", in a situation of full contrast.