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1961, post-war Taiwan. Ma Shuisheng, the eldest son of the Ma family, is forced to sell the family's ancestral land to purchase morphine for his ailing parents, providing them relief from pain. Eventually, Shuisheng faces a heart-wrenching decision between their last piece of farmland and his newborn child.
The girl spots a snow globe prize at a pinball arcade but spends all her allowance without winning the snow globe. The next day, she experiences the Taoist festival and reunites with her long-absent father. This temporarily reunited family spends a surreal and magical evening during the festival feast.
Two women make a conversation in a café. One just lost her husband, and the other is the "third person." Their dialogue is about resentment, guilt, confession, and self-forgiveness.
Xiaowei disappeared, and the divorced couple began to search for their son's whereabouts. With a photo of Xiaowei's injury, they found Wang Hao, the young man who was carrying the secret. Following the clues left by Xiao Wei, we discover step by step the unknown side of Xiao Wei; Xiao Wei still has not come back, but every moment everyone lives, it is as if Xiao Wei has never left.
Built in 1969, this former staff quarters of the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation bears witness to Chiayi's postwar housing development and urban memory. Today, its walls are cracked, concrete eroded, timber decayed, tiles shattered, and the entrance hall is entirely gone. Yet traces of past daily life still linger. Drawing on experimental methods, the film seeks to construct a visually dislocated narrative in which past and present coexist out of sync, offering an alternative perspective on the act of gazing.
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