Chinesische immigrant Shun Li feels lost in Venice. Then she befriends Bepi, an immigrant from eastern Europe, who over the years has learned the ropes of integration. Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome work towards getting her eight-year-old son to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not so distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of the lagoon. But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities.
Chinesische immigrant Shun Li feels lost in Venice. Then she befriends Bepi, an immigrant from eastern Europe, who over the years has learned the ropes of integration.
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome work towards getting her eight-year-old son to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work in a pub.
Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not so distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of the lagoon. But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities.