在纽约布鲁克林区街头开设香烟店的哈维凯托，和经常到店里买烟的失意作家威廉.赫特是全片的中心人物，透过他俩的交谈各自的遭遇，理出了四个男人与一个女人之间复杂的人生故事…… 　　在东方女性版的《喜福会》造成轰动后，导演王颖转过头来拍摄一部西方男性版，同样是以几个家庭的多线发展探讨人伦亲请的可贵，但味道各有不同。这部电影能把生活中看似平凡无奇的一些细微变化作出高明的解释，不少片段有感人肺腑的剧力，证明王颖已经跨越华裔导演的民族局限性，且西方题材的掌握也能挥洒自如。

杂货店老板爱上了非法移民的墨西哥少年，他带少年回家住，和少年的朋友开车旅行，然而，这群社会边缘人却终将面对悲剧的结局。格斯·范·桑特的处女作，全片以优雅迷人的黑白阶调与夜间摄影完成。那一张张俊美的少男脸孔，那一条条没有尽头的草原公路，那一幕幕流云涌动的天空，预示了其往后的电影标记。

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

When Harris runs out of toilet paper, a nightmare is unleashed from which he may never escape.

A music video shot on VHS set to music by lo-fi electronic band Hype Williams