Lu Mian-Mian

Mickey is a twenty-something Taiwanese woman: sporting short hair, a baseball cap, and impressive tattoos, she’s both tough and depressed. Her best friend, Gin Gin, is an ultra-femme bleached blonde go-go dancer. Gin discovers she’s pregnant while her boyfriend is ghosting her. Since he’s also in Guangzhou, Micky and Gin Gin decide to head out on the road together. After their luggage is stolen, they’re taken in by a stranger and introduced to a glitzy, bizarrely otherworldly urban metropolis, and their road trip takes several strange and frightening turns.

After being fired from her previous job, Qin-Qin, a 30-year-old beer girl, feels lost and tries to get drunk. Wandering through the darkened lanes of a fish market, she ponders the meaning of life. There she discovers a late night seafood stand, where she finds what she has been longed for…