A Latvian grandmother comes to visit her daughter in Los Angeles, where she encounters the surreal reality of life in America.

Requiem Espresso is a love letter to pop cinema culture. It's the story of Francesco: a delivery guy that sleeps on his friend's sofa. Only a few years earlier he was Frank, the front man of a band that was on the verge of success. Then one day, during his deliveries, an opportunity knocks on his door: to open the concert of an international band and finally make his comeback on the stage. Frank will have to put together his old band with which he burned bridges and face the past he escaped from. He does not know, however, that the concert is actually a cover for something very different...

A homesick Russian immigrant mother makes the difficult decision to return home with her young daughter, concealing plans from her Westernized ex-husband.