Searching for Shingo Nakajima

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Alberto Ishida is half Spanish half Japanese. Although some of his family lives in Japan, he has never met any of them.

But that is all about to change. His dad, whose mom was born in Japan, has told him that his second cousin is studying aboard at the University of California, Irvine and needs a ride from LAX.

Like any good relative, Alberto has agreed to pick him up. But there's just one problem: He has never met him and doesn't know what he looks like.

The only information he is sure of is that his cousin, Shingo Nakajima, arrives at 1:30pm. 

But as more and more international flights arrive, Alberto begins to take stabs in the dark to see if he can find Shingo and complete his mission of delivering him to UCI.