A skilled locksmith, gifted with the ability to open any lock, yet he is unwilling to return home. The hostess he pursues has no intention of continuing to keep him company. Facing a profound sense of emptiness, he has turned himself towards another rugged path.
Amidst the scorching rural countryside, among the neighbors, her mother-in-law, and the sound of chickens. Chen Wen-yi is the new one in town, a wife, a daughter-in-law, and perhaps in the future, a mother. However, will there finally be a moment when she can purely be herself?
Hong has stayed in the mainland for years. At the beginning of 2020, he closes up his company and came back to Taiwan, where he meets again his estranged daughter, Xiao-Yue, at his ex-wife’s funeral. Hong doesn’t know where else to go. In perplexity, he hears the hoofbeats. The horse turns back to look at him under the moon...
A man washes a stuffed pig in a laundromat in Taipei and a woman waits for someone else. Like mass-produced pigs, this is a brief encounter, one of the many chance encounters in life, but what we learn about the two and the life of the city seeps in and plays a long aftertaste.
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