In Belgium, Hamed risks his life to recover a precious silver percolator that has always belonged to his family and is taken from his shop, a small pawn shop, during a violent demonstration.
In China, Fei, the young manager of a chemical company who is about to marry his boss’s daughter, is forced to face his values when he is put in charge of the plant in Yunnan, his home region, where peasants make a living from coffee production.
In Italy, Renzo, a young coffee whiz, leaves the country with his partner in tow to seek his fortune at a big coffee importing company, but he never finds his release and ends up getting mixed up in a robbery. The Italian part of the film was shot in Bolzano and Trieste. The latter is particularly recognisable in one scene in which Renzo walks through Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia.
In Belgium, Hamed risks his life to recover a precious silver percolator that has always belonged to his family and is taken from his shop, a small pawn shop, during a violent demonstration.
In China, Fei, the young manager of a chemical company who is about to marry his boss’s daughter, is forced to face his values when he is put in charge of the plant in Yunnan, his home region, where peasants make a living from coffee production.
In Italy, Renzo, a young coffee whiz, leaves the country with his partner in tow to seek his fortune at a big coffee importing company, but he never finds his release and ends up getting mixed up in a robbery. The Italian part of the film was shot in Bolzano and Trieste. The latter is particularly recognisable in one scene in which Renzo walks through Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia.
Orisa Produzioni, Savage Film, Road Pictures, China Blue Films
Three stories, three places, three diametrically-opposed social contexts all connected by one single guiding thread: coffee, a drink that brings together millions of human beings and the most diverse of cultures.
