Chinese Take-Away

Roberto runs and small hardware store. His life is pretty miserable. His supplier of nails always cheats him and his customers rarely end up purchasing what they need from him. He spends his days cutting out absurd stories from newspapers — one of which involves a Chinese man sitting in a boat with his financé. She is instantly killed when a cow falls on her from an airplane that has been shot down. Will wonders never cease? This Chinese fellow named Jun ends up in Buenos Aires on the street, and poor Roberto ends up taking him in for a day. But a day soon becomes two weeks. Roberto hates company and desperately tries to find a man named Qian, who is Jun’s uncle. During this time, we discover just how funny things can get when a certain Qian turns up, but it’s not Jun’s uncle. —Nancy Snipper