A middle-aged couple are taking a walk by the harbour and having a fight when they meet an old acquaintance. When they walk past the Mazu temple, where he proposed to her, it reminds them of how things used to be.
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive.
There are many things that a woman's hands can do but wiping tears off is not one of them. This is Meng Meng Betel Nut Stand run by three women, which offers comfort to the residents in this small seaside town.
Ashin's mother
어릴 때부터 체조만이 유일한 꿈이었던 아쉰, 하지만 신체적 핸디캡과 어머니의 반대로 체조를 그만두게 된다. 어머니를 도와 과일가게에서 일하지만 마음을 잡지 못하고 방황하는 아쉰. 친구 피클과 뒷골목 세계를 오가며 위태로운 시간을 이어가던 중 폭력사건에 휘말려 쫓기듯 고향을 떠나게 되는데… 과연 아쉰은 체조에 대한 열정을 되찾고 다시 한 번 인생을 건 도전의 기회를 잡을 수 있을까.
Wu Ai Tsao
A woman who believes she chose an unconventional path in her life is startled to find her children are stepping father beyond society's boundaries in this drama from Taiwanese filmmaker Chiang Hsiu-chiung. Ai-tsao is a widow who is nearly 60 years old; her husband, over twenty years her senior, has been dead for nearly two decades, and Ai-tsao's life has settled into a comfortable routine of looking after her elderly mother and doting on her two adult children.
Li Li's mother
A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
