**Angela's intimate world** Angela is the epitome of a free and liberated woman—altruistic, intellectual, and sexually independent. She chooses her partners much like she selects a book from her shelf: with curiosity and care. As an undocumented immigrant living in a loft in the heart of Los Angeles, this Nicaraguan woman is running from a violent past. Now a nurse, she looks after her own—the forgotten and those truly in need. Angela is a pragmatist who lives strictly in the moment. She makes this perfectly clear to Bill, a former American banker bogged down by capitalist prejudices and a…