All of that informs the fresh commentary and characterization of Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” based on his own novel of the same name. What if the people pushed into the periphery were aware of it, and how can they move organically into the main story?

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang, "Silicon Valley") is a waiter in a police procedural when he witnesses a kidnapping outside the restaurant where he works in New York's Chinatown. He suddenly has an epiphany — what happened to her,