Set in 1970s Detroit, SNAFU follows Ben Ding, a Chinese truck driver scraping by through small, questionable side hustles. One night, a routine stop at his sister’s dumpling shop spirals into disaster when Ben discovers he has unknowingly been transporting Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa’s presence draws armed mobsters straight to the restaurant, trapping Ben, his sister, and his friend in a claustrophobic standoff that quickly erupts into violence. As the night escalates, Ben is forced to improvise his way through a series of brutal, messy confrontations, using whatever the kitchen offers to survive. What begins as an attempt to protect his family turns into something more unsettling: each decision pushes Ben further into moral gray zones he never planned to enter. The chaos exposes the cost of cutting corners and the quiet ways desperation hardens into corruption. Blending grounded action with character-driven comedy, SNAFU explores survival, loyalty, and complicity through a distinctly overlooked lens. By placing a Chinese American family at the center of a 1970s crime story, the film reclaims a space where Asian faces are rarely seen, despite always having been there. Designed as a proof of concept for an episodic series, SNAFU ends with unresolved consequences, leaving Ben alive—but changed—and the world around him anything but settled.