When his employee disappears in Singapore, Shyam travels from India to investigate the absence and becomes entangled in a deadly plot.
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Shammi Kapoor
Shyam
Padmini
Lata
Maria Menado
Maria
Shashikala
Shobha
Agha
Cha Choo
Tomás’ two great passions are classical music and a compulsion for putting things in order, which has led to his nickname “rarito” (weirdo). In Tomás’ tidy world, where he works stacking shelves in the supermarket of a quiet, uneventful neighborhood, something changes when his secret platonic love, Laura, disappears. However, thanks to his fondness for tidying up things and noting down everything, he analyses the habits and obsessions of an eccentric array of clients to find out who is behind Laura’s disappearance. In this town nothing is as “standard” as Tomás would like…
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