Fritland was born in the 1970s when a family of Albanian immigrants, fueled by the American dream, landed in Belgium while waiting for something better. The Laci family bought a space behind the stock exchange and opened their business there. Zenel worked fourteen hours a day: fries, cones, fricandelles, Andalusian sauce. But what he really loved was literature, art, dreaming, and telling stories. And he knew a lot of stories, from watching customers come and go, struggling to escape his fate as an Albanian chip shop owner, to find his own path, his freedom...