Chen Po-wei

Pan Nah and his friend Azhu are causing trouble all over the town. When they encounter a bullied dork, Pan Nah adopts him into their group. And so begins an outing that will change the fates of all of them.

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.

On one deep-sea fishing ship, a seasoned captain; a chief engineer who is retiring soon; a experienced Filipino worker who speaks a bit of Taiwanese and English; an unskilled Indonesian comes working on the ship because the agency told him that he could earn money faster. Everyone on the ship has his own purpose and longing. In the ocean, their world is only made with the deck, and the cabin. Emotions can be magnified, collide and intertwine with each other in this cramped space, and no one can escape from it.

Yuexin is trapped in an endless time loop—each time he wakes, he's confronted by his wife, Shuchun, holding a photo of his affair and asking the same question: “Why?” He’s tried apologizing, explaining, yelling, even staying silent, but no matter how he responds, the outcome never changes.

Trying to fit in with the “cool” clique at school, the quirky girl Tian strikes up a conversation with classmate Niu Niu, hoping to buy weed. A spiral of misunderstandings unfolds.