Part One
Inside "The Golden Dragon" Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant. Five Asian people are cooking side by side in the tiny kitchen. The smallest one is hunched over because of tooth pain. In the front part of the restaurant, stewardesses Inga and Eva sit down at their table. Above the restaurant a young woman visits her grandfather. Like always, Hans, the neighbour and grocer, orders the No. 103 at the restaurant. The smaller fellow screams with pain. He is in Germany looking for his sister, but he has no money and no papers. Going to the dentist is not an option.

The Ant stocks his pantry over the whole summer, while her neighbour, the Cricket, spends her time playing music. When winter comes, the Cricket begs the Ant for something to eat. But the Ant refuses.

The small fellow’s tooth is already black. In the kitchen, his compatriots decide to pull his tooth out for him using a pipe wrench.

Part Two
Above "The Golden Dragon" restaurant, the young woman shares her joyous news that she is pregnant. In the kitchen the little fellow’s pulled tooth flies through the air in a large arch and lands in the wok.

The Ant has a business idea: She rents the Cricket out to other people. The Ants rape the Cricket. One of the Cricket’s clients is the young woman’s grandfather from the "Golden Dragon" building.

Inga, the stewardess, finds the small fellow’s half rotted tooth in her soup. The small fellow’s tooth gap does not stop bleeding.

Part Three
The small fellow’s worried family from China is sitting inside the tooth gap, wondering whether he has found his sister yet. The granddaughter’s boyfriend is drinking away his exasperation about his girlfriend’s pregnancy, inside the grocery store together with Hans.

The grocer leaves the young man with the cricket. The encounter escalates. The young man breaks the cricket.

The small fellow bleeds to death in the kitchen of "The Golden Dragon". He didn’t find his sister. The four other Asians wrap his body in a carpet and drown him in the river. Inga, the stewardess, stands on the bridge holding the small fellow’s tooth in her hand. She throws it into the river. 

The story begins in a Chinese restaurant, where a cook, the Little Chinese, suffers from toothache. As an illegal immigrant, he avoids seeing a dentist. When the tooth is extracted unprofessionally in the kitchen, he bleeds to death. A stewardess finds the tooth in her bowl of soup and takes it on a trip to China.

The story is both tragic and comic, absurd, grotesque and enigmatic. The music adds even more dimensions, revealing connections and psychological aspects. It uses parlando style for many scenes, but reserves a final monologue of farewell to the Little Chinese.