Paul and Tito, two Peruvian teenagers, are looking for meaning and of course sex in the city of New York. They are undocumented delivery boys who want to be loved by a mysterious Croatian girl. Meanwhile, their mother Raffaella falls head over heels for a swiss pulp fiction author and dreams of a bright future with him. The woman is persuaded by the author to start a burrito empire from their Bronx kitchen. But the American Dream becomes a trap when deportation looms.
Based on the novel by Dutch author Arnon Grunberg.
Switzerland youth love relationship motherhood immigration literary adaptation