Four Walks of Life

Log Line:

Four strangers coming from very different walks of life cross paths in Los Angeles, a huge city where visitors often find the social and geographical vastness difficult to navigate. Kindness, resourcefulness and serendipity bring their lives together in this heartwarming urban tale.

Synopsis:

Joseph Yabes, the director of the nearly completed California State History Museum in Los Angeles woos Mariam Dupont, a young but accomplished archaeology expert in Paris for an LA visit and a new job at the new museum.

Mariam's adventure in the U.S. is off to a bad start when her heirloom ring falls off her finger while she admires the downtown Los Angeles skyline in a park.

Later on, cyber security expert Eric finds the ring and notices the mysterious series of numbers inscribed on the inside. Later in Koreatown, Eric stumbles upon Harry, a recently discharged U.S. Marine who was stationed in Europe. Harry notices the format of the serial number and recognizes it as a French Army service number. Eric immediately hacks into the French Army database and discovers that the original owner was a French Army General who was killed in action in WWII. However, the mystery of how the ring arrives in LA remains unsolved.

While the new LA museum is thrilled about Mariam and offers her the job, Mariam feels overwhelmed by the size of LA and takes losing the ring that she inherited from her grandfather WWII General Ringer Dupont as a bad omen. She decides against taking the job offer and is getting ready to return to her family roots in Paris.

While watching a baseball game in a sports bar, Eric and Harry run into famous Japanese-American TV actor Jason Yukimura. With the help of Jason and an obscure Japanese WWII website, they identify Mariam Dupont as the surviving descendant of the WWII legend. After a couple of phone calls, the group discovers that Mariam is visiting LA but is less than an hour away from boarding a plane and returning to France. All three of them race against time to return the ring to Mariam and hoping to give the French expert a good impression about LA one last time.

SPOILER:

As the party approaches Los Angeles International Airport, Harry spots Mariam by her red hair and red suitcase. Eric chases after Mariam and puts the ring back on her finger. Mariam is shocked and inquires as to how they find her. Harry jokes that Eric is a hacker and looked up the serial number. Mariam explains that she decides to go back to France because she does not feel that she has any connection with LA. Jason muses that she just made three new friends. Nonetheless, Mariam decides to move on and thanks the three.

Moment later, Mariam knocks on the car window of the group and asks if they can take her to the History Museum because her flight is delayed. When Eric asks how long it will be delayed, Mariam tells the group that she decides to stay in LA and takes the new job.

After locking her luggage in the trunk, all four walks away together as Jason states that since Mariam made them leave the baseball game at the bar, she must finish watching it with them first. Mariam says she does not know anything about baseball. Harry tells her that they will teach her and the first thing she needs to know about baseball is who the best baseball team in the world is, his voice fades as the group walks into the distance.