Xiaobin is 17 years old and does not speak a single word of Spanish when she arrives in Argentina. But a few days later, she already has a new name, Beatriz, and a job in a Chinese supermarket. Her family lives in a parallel world, in a launderette, far removed from the Argentinians. Xiaobin secretly saves money and enrols at a language school and tries what she learns in the street. After having learned how to “make appointments”, she arranges to meet a supermarket customer, Vijay. He comes from India, and although they can barely communicate with each other, they start a secret relationship. And when she practises the conditional, the form of possibility, Xiaobin starts thinking about the future.
- Duration: 65
- Production year: 2016
- Country: Argentina