The Loneliness of the Short-Order Cook

Marcel Sawicki

IndieLisboa 2009 •

Poland, Fiction, 2008, 22′

Living in East LA and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young cook (Shin) faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. Shin experiences a side of LA invisible to his social circle of Japanese immigrants. A portrait of life between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.