Lin Ching-shan

Used to keeping quiet, Wei shuts out his parents' absurd antics behind closed doors. Neglected at home, Hsuan travels north by herself and stumbles into Wei's life. Taipei's starry nights, planes piercing the sky... these overlooked everyday moments in the city turn into a ray of light for them against an ambiguous future.

Bo Xin has no status at home - his brother despises him for not having a job, his mother won't buy him breakfast, and his father wants him to die. But, the fortune teller told Bo Xin that he would succeed, though "they" didn't think so...

Eight-year-old Yu-xin lives a colorful yet lonely life by the sea. Convinced her hiccups are a whale's gulps for air, she sends out calls for companions. Through a school vent, she finds one—a silent girl. They share adventures until Yu-xin realizes her friend is hiding something.

On a winter hot-spring trip, twelve-year-old Dodie refuses to enter the water in the girly swimsuit her father bought. Feeling misunderstood, she hides by the poolside, watching the girls in the bath—none of whom look like someone she wants to become. Then, the calm, androgynous presence of Fujiko, a 69-year-old bathhouse worker, catches her attention. Dodie quietly steps closer…

The daughter of a mountain ranger perished in a mountain disaster, and since then, he lost faith in the mountains. Many years later, because of a request from a young girl, he returned to the mountains once more.