Flip loses his job at the stock-exchange, gets robbed, wanders blindly into an interracial gang- war and, on top of all this, discovers the first signs of his agoraphobia. When a police officer ties a Vietnamese woman selling egg-rolls to a mast, and one of the warring gangs pounces on her, Flip does his best to help her. But his agoraphobia gets in the way ... ' Get ready for an original and turbulent story told In the form of a modern fairytale! Flip has a weakness for Vietnamese food, and even dreams of his own restaurant with chopsticks. Ecco: the title.
This video's brilliant camerawork leaves the viewer in the dark at first. Yet not knowing what all this means adds to both the fun and tension - until you do know: this portrait of a multicultural society in 1995 is light on the problems and heavy on the side-glances.