He is able to steal the receipt from Nima. After Wilee leaves, Nima is confronted by Monday, who sees the courier receipt Wilee gave her. Wilee and Nima conduct their transaction at the college attended by Nima. Monday begins searching for Nima, who decides to hire Wilee to deliver the envelope with the ticket to Sister Chen by 7 pm after Nima is told by Leung that anyone who knew she was visiting him is a loose end which could endanger her if she tries to deliver the ticket herself. He approaches Robert 'Bobby' Monday, a gambling-addicted NYPD detective who owes him money, offering to clear Monday's debt if Monday gets him the ticket. Lin, a local loan shark, has learned of the ticket and that whoever returns it to Mr. Leung, a Chinese hawaladar, in exchange for a ticket that she must deliver to Sister Chen, so that Chen’s gang can smuggle Nima's son and mother from China to the United States.

Nima delivers $50,000 that she has saved for two years to Mr. Vanessa is in the process of packing her few belongings. Vanessa's roommate, Nima, has asked Vanessa to move out for a personal reason she does not disclose. He finds meaning and purpose in being employed as a thrill-seeking New York City bicycle messenger, despite arguments with his girlfriend and fellow bike messenger, Vanessa, who insists that he should make something of himself. Wilee is a disenchanted Columbia Law School graduate who has put off taking the bar exam because he could not bear to enter the humdrum life of the legal profession. It contains numerous flash-forward and flashback cuts, indicated with an overlaid digital clock showing the time advancing rapidly forward or backward to the next scene.

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