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.
On his 60th birthday, Van is told that he is seriously ill. But instead of going to Taipei for treatment, his illness leads him to Japan. Together with his son, he goes in search of the father who abandoned him 50 years ago. At the same time, a young man with a mysterious connection to Van's past is travelling from Hong Kong to Taiwan.
Ling é uma trabalhadora do setor de vestuário. Seu marido, está trabalhando em Xangai e sua filha, não tem o menor interesse em gastar algum tempo com a mãe. Ling observa as texturas da rotina diária completamente sozinha, enquanto sente o envelhecimento no horizonte. Sua vida é uma queimadura lenta construída por uma acumulação de condições familiares e modernas, que Ling mal consegue registrar o seu próprio pânico subterrâneo. Até que de forma desorientada, ela nos mostra camadas de impulsos ilegíveis cutucando contra a dormência, uma mulher que vê sua própria vida secando e silenciosamente tenta algum tipo de liberação...
Vencedor dos prêmios de 'Melhor Narrativa' e 'Melhor Atriz' (Shiang-chyi), no Taipei Film Festival.
Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.
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.
