In the middle of a New Year's Eve robbery, two petty thieves have an unexpected encounter.

A struggling Hong Kong painter, Yu, falls for a struggling gold digger, Yee, in France.

Two girl-friends host a radio phone-in show in Paris.

Taking as its departure point the 1993 opening of the Channel Tunnel, Là Bas is a playful burlesque on cultural difference, eccentricity and passion. Using different locations, Kötting knits together an imaginary tunnel, with tickets sold like a seaside attraction, through which one walks between England and France (the interior shots of the tunnel are of the Greenwich foot tunnel), and which is ...