A young woman falls in love with a shoplifter in her family's convenience store, setting off a series of mishaps involving a lost doll, a loaded gun and a grandmother who speaks only Korean.
Acting
Sandra Oh's face does three movies' worth of work.
Direction
Helen Lee squeezes a feature's ambition into short film runtime.
Director
Helen Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first Canadian films centering Korean-Canadian experience, predating the 'Asian American cinema' boom by years.
Sandra Oh and Adam Beach would both become household names—here they're hungry unknowns raw with promise.