Hong has stayed in the mainland for years. At the beginning of 2020, he closes up his company and came back to Taiwan, where he meets again his estranged daughter, Xiao-Yue, at his ex-wife’s funeral. Hong doesn’t know where else to go. In perplexity, he hears the hoofbeats. The horse turns back...
Living at her grandma's house - converted into a secret gambling den - a girl faces constant harassment as she struggles to earn money to pay for her upcoming graduation trip. Surrounded by sly neighbours, she must choose between her ethics and her desires.
A skilled locksmith, gifted with the ability to open any lock, yet he is unwilling to return home. The hostess he pursues has no intention of continuing to keep him company. Facing a profound sense of emptiness, he has turned himself towards another rugged path.
Docked at the port of Kaohsiung, Filipino seaman Arnie buys a ring with the help of his mates, to propose to his girlfriend back home. The supposedly happiest moment of his life soon takes a downward spiral when he finds out she is pregnant - but he is not the father of the child.
Amidst the scorching rural countryside, among the neighbors, her mother-in-law, and the sound of chickens. Chen Wen-yi is the new one in town, a wife, a daughter-in-law, and perhaps in the future, a mother. However, will there finally be a moment when she can purely be herself?
A man washes a stuffed pig in a laundromat in Taipei and a woman waits for someone else. Like mass-produced pigs, this is a brief encounter, one of the many chance encounters in life, but what we learn about the two and the life of the city seeps in and plays a long aftertaste.
