This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It’s also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through which values are re-examined and life reaffirmed.
Sen Sen is a boy in Taiwan mourning his older brother's death. When he discovers a streaming website that his brother followed it leads him to an old lady with terminal cancer. Together they form an unlikely bond.
After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.
누구나 꿈꿀 법한 따스하고 평화로운 공간인 두얼의 카페가 오픈했다. 그녀의 오랜 바람이 드디어 이루어진 것! 하지만 손님들의 발길은 뜸하기만 하다. 그러던 어느 날 함께 카페를 운영하던 여동생 창얼은 개업선물로 받은 잡동사니들의 물물교환을 제안하고, 얼마 지나지 않아 그녀들의 카페는 타이페이의 명소로 자리잡는다. 처음엔 탐탁지 않아 하던 두얼도 35개의 비누에 담긴 35개의 도시 이야기를 들려주는 한 남자와 마음을 주고 받게 되고, 마침내 36번째 이야기를 찾기 위한 새로운 꿈을 꾸기 시작하는데…
The film follows Robinson, a very succesfull real estate broker, who lives in a modern hotel in Taipei. But all the success also hides a lonely man, whose relations are becoming distant, including friends and lovers; Robinson's dream is the Crusoe, an island on the Caribbean, which he wants to try purchase.
