In this scene we see Joy negotiating the terms of her asylum if she were to turn information about her madame over to the government. This scene ties in really well with the theme of a harmful binary, which holds vulnerability inferior and opposite to agency, which can be found in “Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance” by Judith Butler. Joy is put in a position where she is extremely vulnerable, and even though the problems she is facing are not unfamiliar to the woman working with her to gain asylum, and especially familiar to Joy’s madame, they still have no problem labeling Joy as ‘vulnerable’ and exploiting her for their own personal gain. Both the government and the madames might try and justify their actions by saying that they provide these prostitutes with protection, but at the end of the day they are more concerned with their own personal gain and consider the safety of the people they’re working with to be secondary. By putting the idea of the prostitutes being vulnerable into the forefront of their minds, people who seek to exploit these girls justify the actions by which the girls are made vulnerable. By advertising security, like the blonde woman does in this scene with the posters in the background saying it’s safe to speak out for prostitutes, and then denying any certainty of getting help after putting oneself at risk, these prostitutes are made vulnerable through betrayal after betrayal of trust, which is use to justify further betrayal and greater oppression down the line.