Korean-Canadian filmmaker Lloyd Lee Choi’s vivid directorial debut follows the tense 48 hours in the life of Lu, a food-delivery driver in New York. When his e-bike is stolen just hours before his wife Si Yu and young daughter Yaya (breakout Carabelle Manna Wei) arrive from Taipei after five years apart, Lu must race against time to recover his bike and keep the new apartment he has secured for his family.

A pulsating exploration of the precarity and daily struggle of New York’s fractured immigrant gig-worker community, shot in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Lower East Side, it echoes neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves, Sean Baker’s Take Out, and the recent Souleymane’s Story.

The screening will be introduced by journalist and film critic Tara Brady.

Festival selection/awards: Official Selection, Director’s Fortnight, Cannes International Film Festival 2025

Screening as part of East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026