Jasmine Wang

On the night of a grand concert in Paris, a young pianist flees from her performance after a panic attack, and finds herself wandering deep within the mysterious Catacombs.

Damien grew up in Geneva, never knowing his father. At thirty-two, he suddenly learns that he is the direct heir of an Englishman living in Taiwan. Damien flies to Taipei where he meets his Taiwanese half-brother Steven. Their inheritance is suspended, on account of two other missing heirs. Damien and Steven set out to find them on the island.

Smokestacks rise like organ pipes over a coastal city, lined with oil refineries. Accidents at the plants occur with troubling regularity, and environmental disaster has become part of daily life. Residents protest the refinery’s planned expansion, even as they must coexist with the very neighbors who work there.

While performing an opera about a princess whose misplaced love ends in her father’s death, a fallen kingdom, and her own suicide, a Taiwanese actress discovers she’s pregnant by her ex-husband. Caught between the roles she’s expected to play onstage and at home, she begins to sense another ending may be possible.

During the period of martial law in 1960s Taiwan, some teachers and students from Cui Hua High School were arrested for possessing banned books. A female student fell to her death and rumors spread of a ghost haunting the campus. Thirty years later, the draconian culture of the school remains unchanged as a new transfer student uncovers the dark secrets behind the school’s haunting.