L.A. Without a Map

“It's bright, exiting, romantic and just a little scary.”

A small town in the north of England, where Richard (David Tennant) is the undertaker and writes the obituaries for the local paper. A visiting American actress (Julie Delpy) spends a short time with him, then flies home to Los Angeles and waits tables at a Japanese restaurant. Mika Kaurismäki follows Richard when he turns up there, and the film is about two people trying to say what they feel in a city built on pretending.