Fortune Cookie

Produced by Kubik Films, Spain

Best known for the features “The Erection of Toribio Bardelli” (2023) and “The Cleaner” (2012) that repped Peru in the Oscars race, Adrian Saba has set his first series in Madrid’s Chinatown, in the Usera district. The story takes us from the Yantai Wok restaurant in Usera to another Chinese eatery in Mexico City’s Chinatown, both connected via a secret door. The portal is used to smuggle drugs into Spain. Things go south when a young Uber Eats delivery girl, Genesis, accidentally enters the Yantai Wok portal, with her mother determined to find her missing child. “It’s a show about family ties, misunderstood children and mothers on the rescue, where everyone is linked by the secret of the door that fortunately and unfortunately are now part of their destiny,” said Saba. From the cultural clash and interconnection of small local stories “comes the humor, the suspense, the thrill and above all, the drama that gives our show a universal value,” he said.