Ju-kuan Hsiao

Tai-shian is locked away in his own autistic universe, totally lost to the world. His parents spend every day looking after him, rendering Tai-shian’s little sister Debby completely invisible to her parents…until one day, when both parents are gone, and Debby finds a new task thrust upon her.

Yeh, a gifted student, transfers to Edison Junior High, a private school renowned for its academic performance. Disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere and distorted institutions, the rebellious Yeh begins to challenge everything he sees and feels. Little does he know that he is slowly falling into the treacherous trap of the mysterious "Dorm 420".

Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream implying that Shing-Shing Chen might have died? Soon afterwards, Ah-Zhou gets an unexpected five-day vacation and decides to look for Shing-Shing Chen. Nevertheless, he quickly learns that the special vacation is for him and another soon-to-be-discharged solider, Xiao-Gui, to go after a deserter, Kuen-He, who ran away with weapons two days ago. Both of them are worried about this assignment because they, the old birds, used to pick on Kuen-He, a spring chicken. And Kuen-He is now a deserter, armed and dangerous.

The film sketches the lives and tribulations of some of those kids the college girl on summer break, the boys from the neighbouring province who only want to do hip-hop and through them we get a real glimpse of what makes Shanghai today a promising big city.

Guei, 16 anos, chega da província a Pequim e encontra trabalho como paquete. Dão-lhe roupa e emprestam uma bicicleta. Quando já a tem quase paga, a bicicleta é roubada perto de um edifício onde tinha ido entregar uma encomenda. Sem bicicleta, Guei fica sem trabalho. Desesperado, corre Pequim à procura dela. Quase por milagre, o seu melhor amigo diz-lhe que a viu na posse de Jian, um estudante que a comprou na feira da ladra. A bicicleta pertence agora aos dois. É preciso aprender a partilhá-la...

Man-Li always lives in the normal track as everybody considers. After graduating from school to society, she keeps each job with caution and fear. Unless she finds a new job, she won’t quit the current one easily. This time is quite different. She resigned and had no idea what to do next. She just thought to make a change of her lifestyle. However, what will it look like? She doesn’t know either. Her boyfriend proposed the thought of getting married. She doesn’t feel like working but it doesn’t necessarily mean that she has to choose marriage. All of this is because of the space she longs for. On the contrary, she doesn’t know what to do. Only she can do is in a daze!Waves kept patting the seashore of the night dream……a feeling was gradually brewed, swelled, unlimitedly developed and grew in strength! What does the voice of waves in the dream draw on earth?

Falta pouco para a chegada do ano 2000 e uma epidemia ataca Taipei, mas os moradores ignoram a ordem de evacuação e permanecem em suas casas. A moradora de um apartamento chama um encanador para investigar um vazamento de água incontrolável que atinge sua casa, vindo do apartamento de cima; o encanador abre um buraco no piso do apartamento superior e promete voltar em seguida, mas não retorna. O buraco acaba criando uma "porta" de ligação entre os dois moradores.