California, Fremont, also known as Little Kabul, because it hosts one of the largest enclaves of Afghans in the United States.

Donya, a young graduate and former translator for the American army in the Afghan capital, now lives in the city of Fremont after fleeing due to the return of the Taliban, leaving her family behind.

She now works in a small artisanal fortune cookie factory for Chinese restaurants.

Once the elderly woman who wrote the fortune cookie messages collapses and dies on the computer keyboard, the owner of the company thinks of assigning the task of creating the sayings to Donya because she is a young woman with a future ahead of her, specifying that:

they should be neither too long nor too short; neither too fortunate nor unfortunate, not too elaborate nor too obvious.

Donya is a young woman who cannot sleep, burdened by a great ethic of responsibility and a great sense of guilt for having left her family in Kabul; since the new corporate commitment keeps her occupied, something happens in her life.

A neighbor friend claims that only in Kabul do the stars always stay in the same position and wonders if it is possible to trust a place where the stars always change position.

The chance encounter with an eccentric psychiatrist, who becomes passionate about her work and encourages her to continue having professional meetings with him, moves her while he reads Jack London's famous novel White Fang to her, opening a new path in her life.

Despite continually asking herself if all the pain in the world can open space for love, the new job, like chance, begins to make its way into her always measured, examined, controlled, and seriously lived existence, while her friend urges her to consider blind dates.

"In desperate search of a dream" is one of her messages...

A series of sliding doors will make this film a magical black-and-white poem, with the right chromaticity of feelings, unpredictability, surprise, reflections, thoughts, responsibility, rationality, and the search for lightness.

A watercolor of loneliness, of randomness and indeterminacy, where blind dates turn out to be catfish while those illuminated by the light of fate are splendid magic.

A film about the eternal struggle between those who believe that Knowledge has power over pain, as the illustrious Greek tragedian Aeschylus maintained, while others think it is better not to know, not to think, not to organize, not to evaluate, not to calculate.

A film about life and the uncertain boundary between reason, chance, and madness, where thought is invited to give way to the unthinkable and welcome it into the harem of rationality to allow a polygamy of existential possibilities.

19-Oct-2023 by Fabian